On Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:55:21 -0000 (UTC), Niocl?s P?l Caile?n de
Ghloucester <thanks-to@Taf.com> wrote:

John Larkin <jl@Glen--Canyon.com> wrote: >|--------------------------------------------------------------------| >|">John Larkin wrote: | >|>|-----------------------------------------------------------------||

|"We don't have engineering technicians. We can solder ourselves."|| >|>|-----------------------------------------------------------------||
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All engineers are technicians, as all technicians are engineers, by| >|>definitions. |
(S. HTTP://Gloucester.Insomnia247.NL/ fuer Kontaktdaten!) |

| |
|No. Technicians seldom design things. By definition!" | >|--------------------------------------------------------------------|

Dear John Larkin:

Senses 3b for "engineer" are "[. . .]; a technician." according to
Della Thompson et al., "The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current
English", Oxford University Press, 9th edition, Reprinted with
corrections 1998.

(Even 3b shows more than 1 sense, hence a semicolon).

Sense 1 and Sense 6 for "engineer" are similar to Sense 1 and Sense 2
for "technician".

The 3rd sense for "technician" may differ from a sense for
"engineer".

Engineers make rules. Techs follow rules.

A lot of life works that way.

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|"What do you do?" | >|--------------------------------------------------------------------|

I am sorry that I forgot to edit the Subject: field of >10rglb1$288d$1@paganini.bofh.team

I read all the letters in dictionaries. Here is a subset: >HTTP://Gloucester.Insomnia247.NL/sgriobhainnean/Ceannaim_focloiri_paipear.JPEG

How's the pay?


John Larkin
Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
Lunatic Fringe Electronics

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=?UTF-8?Q?Niocl=C3=A1s_P=C3=B3l_Caile=C3=A1n?= de Ghloucester <thanks-to@Taf.com>wrote:

Jan Panteltje schreef: >|-----------------------------------------------------------------|

|"That is actually where I got my first computer, a Sinclair ZX80,|
|started coding! |
| https://panteltje.nl/panteltje/z80/index.html " | >|-----------------------------------------------------------------|

I like my good Sinclair-ZX81 floormat which I bought from Temu. I
failed to find a Sinclair-ZX80 doormat.

Yes, later I had a ZX81 too.

HTTPS://Panteltje.NL/panteltje/z80/system14/system14.doc.txt
has:
"I would prefer a disk drive that would not let go of the floppy, but do not >know if such a drive exist."

Not sure what you mean by that?
I used a 5/1/4 inch floppy drive on the ZX80 :-) (Kaypro 2 format)

But to speed up things I made a 250 MB RAMDISC,
so at power up loaded everything into that (dynamic) RAM DISC, and worked from there,.
My Z80 system was faster than the first IBM PCs that way, no seek times!!

Apple disk drives do not permit non-software things to remove
floppies.
(S. HTTP://Gloucester.Insomnia247.NL/ fuer Kontaktdaten!)

I moved to Linux around 1993 or so and still use it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softlanding_Linux_System


At work I had to work with MS windows at times.

I do have a 3.5 inch USB floppy drive for old floppies, not used for years? Computers here are now Raspberry Pis mostly
...


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