Re: [ATM] Aging atm's (1950's)

[Kevin Whitefire <chaosopher23@yahoo.com>]

How often do you old folks have to change tubes in
those computers you do e-mail on?

:-P

Kevin of Eastern Iowa
Seeker of the Darkness

--- mdholm@telerama.com wrote:

> 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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