WAY BACK WHEN I WAS A HIGH SCHOOL KID in the Paleolithic 1960s era, I wanted to learn electronics. I experimented a lot (destroying a few radios along the way), assembled Heath and Knight kits, and regularly built DIY projects featured in Radio-Electronics and Popular Electronics magazines.
In-between splattering solder on my thumb and digging into these articles to figure out how to adapt the circuits to 220V/50Hz operation (I was living in Europe at the time), I couldn’t help but notice some ads featuring a stern-faced guy who said, “Get more education or get out of electronics!� more