An engineer who encouraged my interest. Much of my early childhood was spent in my father’s garage, amidst a plethora of tools, car batteries, bits of old televisions, model steam engines, dynamos, valves, tobacco tins crammed with nuts and bolts, bottles of mysterious and wonderful-smelling chemicals, electric motors, relays, bulbs, strange actuators filched from scrapped aircraft, timber, sheet metal, hardboard, paints and varnishes. I would sit on the floor, playing with wires, whilst he constructed miracles of rare device that were usually lethal but almost always wonderful. He taught me to solder when I was nine, and together we built my first short wave radio. For home computers, MP3 players, mobile telephones, DVD
players and surround sound systems, sales have never been better. Why is this? What
does digital mean anyway? Is it true that digital implies high quality, better than we could get from traditional analog techniques?
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