by Scott Darlington | Mar 26, 2016 | About Scott
Sometimes, you focus so much on a goal that you don’t think much beyond that goal. For me, I had known for so long that I wanted to be an electrical engineer that I never really thought about what came after graduation. Oh yes, then there’s the story about RIM… High...
by Scott Darlington | Mar 26, 2016 | About Scott
I knew in Grade 3 that I wanted to be an electrical engineer. My father had introduced me to building balsa-wood model airplanes that you could fly with a model engine. To start those engines, you needed one heck of a big battery. It was essentially a massive D-cell...
by Scott Darlington | Mar 23, 2016 | Technology
As many of you know, I’ve pretty much just started setting up several web sites, listed on my front page. I was intrigued when Randy Cassingham, author of the hilarious, weekly (and free!) This is True email list, mentioned that he was starting a new email list and...
by Scott Darlington | Feb 12, 2016 | Technology
Way back in the fall of 1977, I began my studies in Electrical Engineering at the University of Waterloo. I decided to upgrade my calculator to the new HP-29C, a second-generation HP calculator with continuous memory. Earlier calculators in the first generation of HP...
by Scott Darlington | Feb 3, 2016 | This Site
For many years now, this site has consisted of a very plain, simple, static web page stating that we’re just getting started on this website. Back in about November of 2015, I boldly stated that I’d make significant progress in early 2016. Well, we’re finally...
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