[GreenKeys] Radio Shack

[Richard Knoppow]

     Well, I think mostly the availability of computers and the 
internet.  I got interested in electronics very early. I began to build 
stuff when I was around 12, same time I became serious about 
photography.  I built a few simple things from scratch and then built a 
Heathkit oscilloscope. Communication was via ham radio.  Now the 
computers do everything and communication is via the internet and i 
phones etc.  One does have to know something to work computers right but 
its different knowledge. I like to restore old radios and machinery but 
I am old fashioned in some ways. OTOH, I like up to date computers. 
There are probably more smart kids around than you think but kids get 
bad press.

On 4/6/2016 10:14 PM, Ed Sharpe Archivist for SMECC via GreenKeys wrote:
> Well  thinking back to the 60's   there were a small group of us that 
> built radios and worked on TVs...
>  the  vast majority ok kids listened to the radio and watched  TV
> so what  has  changed!?
> Ed # www.smecc.org <http://www.smecc.org>
> In a message dated 4/6/2016 6:38:50 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, 
> tony.podrasky at gmail.com writes:
>
>     Yes; I have found the kids can do amazing things with the electronic
>     devices they have access to - but have no understanding of how and
>     why they work - and have no desire to learn.
>
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