[ARC5] What's a Transformer?

[Peter Gottlieb]

On the other hand, we have a hard time memorizing and navigating menus but they find it easy and natural. 


Peter

> On Jul 3, 2018, at 9:07 AM, Scott Robinson <spr at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> 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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