Re: [ATM] Aging atm's

["David Harbour" <scarab2@cox.net>]

Ahh, Mark, I see you won't let me go.

Well then, by golly, with my old stuff, I will hang around!! (Maybe lurk
more, pontificate less). Thanks to all of you guys who've valued what I've
been to provide in the past.

Davey
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <mdholm@telerama.com>
To: <atm@atmlist.net>
Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 6:43 PM
Subject: [ATM] Aging atm's


> Dave Harbour wrote:
>
> >I'm living in the seventies
> >(fifties, actually). I shouldn't be on this list.
>
> OK, Dave.  You have finally written something to get me mad!  Amateur
telescope
> making, is as you very well know, an old hobby.  Sure there are lots of
new
> techniques and new tricks, and those are very valuable.  But, a lot of the
> troubles atm's constantly reencounter have been  encountered and solved
> multiple ways by multiple people over a long span of time.  Let's not
evaluate
> ideas or people based on age or youth.  In this game, it is careful
> observation, careful experimentation and careful thinking that count.
Those
> are timeless.
>
> I, for one, am quite happy to hear from someone who made careful
observations
> years ago and is willing to share them now, even if current circumstance
> prevents him from being up on the latest tricks.
>
> I am also very pleased to read about newfangled tricks that enrich the
hobby and
> make more and better telescope making available to more people.
>
> Mark Holm
> mdholm@telerama.com
>
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