Happy 106th Ted - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: chris_leyson
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 11, 2016, 04:38:14 pm
content: Birthday greeting from sunny England, happy 106th Ted hope you are doing well.

author: Jwalling
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: August 11, 2016, 06:35:32 pm
content: Who?

author: rdl
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 11, 2016, 06:46:24 pm
content: Happy Birthday Ted. Hope you have a good one.https://www.eevblog.com/2016/04/29/eevblog-874-worlds-oldest-electronics-hobbyist/

author: Cubdriver
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: August 11, 2016, 07:12:00 pm
content: Wow!! That guy's amazing! Happy Birthday sir!-Pat

author: System Error Message
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: August 11, 2016, 11:44:48 pm
content: happy birthday, still going strong above 100 years and still soldering. Proof that electronics, emf, lead are all safe

author: RobertoLG
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: August 12, 2016, 12:08:32 am
content: Happy birthday grandpahave many more with good healt and love for electronics!

author: TerraHertz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 12, 2016, 05:28:49 am
content: My goodness! I missed the original thread (correct link):https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-874-world's-oldest-electronics-hobbyist!/Happy birthday Ted.I will try to never complain about being 'old' and having 'old' test gear again. He's nearly twice my age.How is he doing now, a few months later? Does he have Internet, and read eevblog?About giving him some better test gear, did anyone think to just ask him if he'd like such things?It's clear from the video that he's not exactly rolling in dough. So his having only a few very old things might not be by his choice. If he ever wanted to at least try modern stuff, but can't afford, that would be pretty sad.Funny - when he said he engraves his circuit boards, I assumed he meant with a Dremel or similar.But no, he means with an _engraving_tool_, as in for woodcut and copper plate engraving. A stick of hard-tempered steel with a handle and a sharp point. Which seeing as he is also an artist and has at least two of them, he's probably been using for their main purpose most of his life and is really good at it.

author: Assafl
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: August 12, 2016, 12:13:40 pm
content: Happy Birthday. Inspiring. What you have seen happen we take for granted.You have seen 2 world wars. Penicillin discovered. The first lasers. The transistor and the integrated circuit. DARPA net. Email. Foundation of the FCC and divide between ads and programs. Stereo. Quadraphonic. 5.1&7.1. Pacemakers. EBooks. The LED. The Blue and UV LED. Laser Diodes. The microprocessor and the computers before it. The space program and the food safety and health and reliability that came with it. The airliners. Skype. VoIP. Electric cars. The cellular phone.And much much more.

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: August 12, 2016, 12:25:56 pm
content: Quote from: TerraHertz on August 12, 2016, 05:28:49 amThe ultimate in electronics street cred, surely?I've inquired as to how he's going.

author: Brumby
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: August 15, 2016, 01:49:22 am
content: Street cred plus!His approach is environmentally friendly on a number of counts - chemical, energy and noise for starters.You can't help but admire a guy like this.