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date this old Fisher 2-box unit
- Thread starter Tom_in_CA
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Probably 1940's but could be postwar. The failure of the old Fisher businesses in approx. 1972 and again in approx. 2007 resulted in the loss of a lot of company history. We actually have several antique Fisher units sitting in the warehouse, but know almost nothing about them. I do admit to admiring the workmanship and the application of state-of-the-art electronics engineering as it was back then. I grew up with vacuum tubes and a keen appreciation for the voltages involved in making them work, and I love too look at old designs and to see how well engineered some of them were.
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One of our engineers is working on a project where very little information is in print even on the Internet with a student license. He's been struggling for months trying to understand a basic physics problem in application of electromagnetics, a field that's been around for more than a hundred years. A couple weeks ago he stumbled across an 1800's paper by Maxwell that laid it all out in plain English before anyone even knew what to do with it. That broke the logjam, and several days later we had in our hands a USGS publication dating from the 1970's that told us everything we wanted to know on the subject. Before the Internet, editors actually had to work for a living. You could buy a 400 page book and read the thing cover to cover, and not a single grammar or spelling error. The buying public wouldn't tolerate inferior product. In the current age of everything informational is free, tempting and contemptible garbage both are offered at the same price point as the Gospel According to St. Mark, in other words free.