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Mike WU2D recently put out this interesting video.  I vaguely remember the springs on the Radio Shack kits -- I also remember (bitterly) not...

Wow, this is almost enough to make me take another shot at repairing my TEK 465.    

There is a lot of wisdom and history in this Cameo video by Steve Wozniak.   Thanks to Chuck KE5SPY for alerting us to this.   Here a good B...

Here is something nice to listen to in your shack...   I hadn't heard this one before.  It is about Shep's teenage trip to a hamfest...

Thanks to Dan Random for alerting us to this.  During the first five minutes Woz talks about being an "electronics kid" and beco...

We discussed Steve Wozniak's early involvment in ham radio here:  https://soldersmoke.blogspot.com/2011/12/wozs-early-exposure-to-el...

The Woz scared me for a second -- I tought he was going to leave a hot iron on the desk amidst paper and other flamable items.  But no -- ...

  We talk a lot about putting soul in our new machines.  The phrase comes from a book by Tracy Kidder.   Ira Flatow of NPR's Sc...

Here is what I was trying to --- hic-- say about Steve Wozniak --hic-- in Podcast #139: From "Steve Jobs" by Walter Isaacson: ...