This threads got me waxing about multimeters I have known!

When I worked at Allied Radio in the '60's that Simpson 260 was the hottest selling meter we had.

Later in the military, we used the PSM-6 . . .

(It wasn't quite that big, but it was heaver!)

You can get a 644P with a bootloader on it + socket and crystal and caps for $11 here:
http://www.wulfden.org/TheShoppe/freeduino/rbfk.shtml

(RBFK644)

It's worth looking at BatchPCB for prototype quantities.
http://www.batchpcb.com/

When you only need a few boards, just to prove the design, they might be cheapest. (Sometimes they throw in a free board.  :-X)

Just another option, if you weren't aware of them.

@ Lefty

I attended basic and tech school training in the Air Force for a year in Texas,

Lackland & Sheppard ?

Just because there are a few examples of silent "L" doesn't mean ALL of them are...

I coudn't - I mean, I couldn't agree with you more.  

Here's a nice little article about the silent "L" that mentions solder  specifically, and the history behind how the "L" became silent (for some).
http://verbmall.blogspot.com/2006/05/silent-letters.html

Hookt on fonics werked 4 me!

Why do people think it's a silent "L" ????

Gee, I don't know . . . “talk,” “walk,” “half,”, “calf”
Maybe we should ask the Colonel?

Good thing your not also very close to aluminium.  
http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/aluminium.htm

And I believe it was George Bernard Shaw who made your quote. True nonetheless.

Thank You!
(I the dark ages I used to fix pocket calculators. I always tested them using 22/7.)

There are dimmable ballists . . .
http://www.dimmers.net/BALLASTS.ASP?gclid=CJfy7Yrj_ZoCFQJHxwodLTKjeA

So some kid goes screaming through our quiet little town and now we talk about making rules.

The rules will be generated based on the most  vocal pet peeves that some have. A list will be compiled that will never go anywhere because there is no one to coordinate it, implement it, and enforce it.

Should the rules somehow be implemented, the result will be rules that are never read by people who occasionally come screaming through our quiet little town.

If you use Chrome (and maybe Firefox) here is a macro that makes Google site search easier . . .
http://loucypher.tumblr.com/post/49268712/search-current-site-on-google-chrome

Director of SW development - at a retail SW co.
Prior, a PL1 programmer under the CPM OS.
Interested in electronics from birth.

Will it be supported in Rel 0015?

It is generally a company's fiscal responsibility to make money.

Sorry I can't help you with the Pizza Oscar, but I bet it was great.
We also spent 5 months in Ivrea in 85-86, with me working for Olivetti. (We actually lived in Vistrorio - a small town in the mountains near there.)

That is not a place where one forgets the food!
(or the wine and the fog)