[ARC5] What's a Transformer?

[Scott Robinson]

And some kids now, when confronted with a radio with rotary knobs, can't 
figure out what to do, 'cause it ain't a touch screen.

Time marches on...

/scott robinson

On 7/3/18 12:15 AM, Robert Downs via ARC5 wrote:
> Yeah, or the one where the punch line is “Well, at least we now know 
> what a Plover’s egg looks like.”.
> 
> Robert Downs
> 
> *From:*arc5-bounces at mailman.qth.net 
> [mailto:arc5-bounces at mailman.qth.net] *On Behalf Of *Christopher Bowne
> *Sent:* Monday, July 2, 2018 21:01
> *To:* mkdorney at aol.com
> *Cc:* arc5 at mailman.qth.net; releazer at earthlink.net
> *Subject:* Re: [ARC5] What's a Transformer?
> 
> Reminds me of the old joke about the city kids out in countryside seeing 
> a milk box with a pile of empty bottles around it and asking if that was 
> a cow’s nest.  If course today’s kids wouldn’t even make the connection 
> of the glass bottles with milk!
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> 
> On Jul 2, 2018, at 10:08, mkdorney--- via ARC5 <arc5 at mailman.qth.net 
> <mailto:arc5 at mailman.qth.net>> wrote:
> 
>     Try showing a kid a typewriter some time.  When my son saw one for
>     the first time, he asked me where the screen was.
> 
>     73
> 
>     Mark
> 
>     WW2RDO
> 
>     In a message dated 7/2/2018 9:17:37 AM Eastern Standard Time,
>     releazer at earthlink.net <mailto:releazer at earthlink.net> writes:
> 
>         I previously mentioned my salvaging a big transformer out of a
>         AM/FM stereo receiver.Late yesterday I was walking my dog and
>         ran into a young guy I know, the grandson of my next door
>         neighbor, and told him about my find.
> 
>         The kid's  a real wiz at computers and has his own workbench in
>         the garage with electronic parts and a soldering iron.  He is
>         not afraid to take things apart and fix them.  But he responded
>         by saying "What's a transformer?  What's it look like?"
> 
> 
> 
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