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AM/FM RADIO KIT – ELECTRONICS COURSE
Modular instruction and construction.
Training Course of 52 pages is divided up into 9 lessons: Audio Amplifier, AM Detector, AM IF, AM Amplifier, AM Mixer & Oscillator, FM Detector, 1st FM IF, 2nd FM IF, FM RF Stages. “Superheterodyne” receiver of standard AM(amplitude modulation) and FM (frequency modulated) broadcast frequencies. Includes stand. Req. 9V battery (not included)
Product Code EL-AMFM108K $34.95
From elenco
I’ve been interested in Damn Small Linux for a while. The frugal intallation’s ability to load the entire OS into RAM is awesome. The ability to mount different add-on programs to the OS (ala OSX) and have a very up to date OS is another. It doesn leave a bit to be desired, but overall, it is a very good Linux for slower hardware. I’m currently running the standard HDD installation on the 866mhz P3 with 256megs or Ram. It is fast and reliable. I do have a few complaints though.
1. the default kernel option contains the nodma command. I am aware of the dangers of using DMA with some hardware, but there should be a grub option with dma enabled by default.
2. Some packages much be manually remounted after a reboot. One such package is IceWM. I would think that a window manager would be automatically remounted so it does not break X.
3. There is no apt-get repository just for DSL and the updates from the default Debian repository make break your system. This makes using apt-get treacherous.
There is much more good about this distro. than bad, and I suggest that everyone with an old 200 or 300mhz P2 PC try it out. A PPC or Sparc version for old Mac’s and Sun workstations might be interesting also.
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