[Lowfer] Lowfer Final Transistors-Switching Time

[JD]

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I remember when Ken Cornell had his Scrapbook and monthly technical stuff in
the LOWDOWN.  Then there was Vince Pinto with new technical stuff all the
time until he gave up the hobby and dissapeared.  His stuff was also in the
LOWDOWN.  What happened?
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Instant gratification happened, that's what.

The couple dozen or so regulars in this reflector who COULD be writing the 
technical tips and articles that used to make the LOWDOWN a very active 
publication, are instead chatting away in short daily snippets here and on 
similar Internet services, rather than putting words down on paper or into a 
file where they could be shared with hundreds of other subscribers in a 
meatier and more tangible form.

The club sure didn't tell the Ken Cornells and Vince Pintos and Lyle 
Koehlers of the LowFER world that we didn't need them any more!!!

Others who can write are mainly doing it for their personal Web sites now. 
Gratifying for them personally, perhaps; but certainly not as helpful as 
having that content in a location that has always had as its primary purpose 
the promotion and publicizing of the hobby, and attracting newcomers to our 
ranks with solid information.

If people don't write it, we can't print it!  That's "what happened."

But I'll tell you, to say there's _never_ any tech information is not 
accurate.