Quote Originally Posted by mister_e
When i was young, i was interested by my father work. Electronic stuff... one day he buyed me one of those 200 in one Radio-Shack electronic kit. Thanks dad!
I had a "Phillips Electronic Engineering Kit" round about 1969 I think ??

Just had a quick google and someone has a page all about the kits
http://ee.old.no/1000/

For as long as I can remember I have been pulling things to bits and until the age of about 14 usually had several bits left over. Now I only have bits left over intentionally

It used to really annoy the hell out of me that everything I built at college worked first time, but anything built at home didnt work at first.

Then I realised that the things that worked first time only taught you how to put things together. The things that dont work teach you HOW things work because to get it working you have to understand exactly what is happening and what each part does.