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Barrie Gilbert and Tinkering, Surplus, and the Visceral Experience of Electronics
Posted: 08 Dec 2021 07:33 AM PST
http://soldersmoke.blogspot.com/2021/12/barrie-gilbert-and-tinkering-surplus.html
Barrie Gilbert, 1951From
https://www.edn.com/analog-back-to-the-future-part-two/ :"Gilbert believes that childhood hardships—including at age three losing his father
in World War II, leaving his mother and three other children
penniless—force one to be resourceful. Before and during his teenage years, he had access to a plethora of inexpensive military surplus gear which
greatly helped to make
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