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Originally Posted by old_coot88
OTVN, just curious - what was your level of electronics expertise at 14? I was 13 in '58.
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Pretty low. Sometime in my teens I was given a mostly working round-tube black and white chassis without a cabinet and managed to not destroy it or myself, but really never learned circuits until I was in college. High school was spent in taking every science course available, including going to summer school to fit them into 4 years along with all the required courses. I also started playing with photography during high school, with an old camera given to me by my chemistry teacher, developing and contact printing B&W film. With his coaching, I even tried making a sensitized paper, but I now know that we were working with a way too high concentration of halide that precipitated out like grainy soup.