Yes indeed, the ride was on this time and it was a real pleasure. I knew Tom only through his forum postings but sure enough he was every bit the nice guy I had expected. We met up in Leiden around 9:00 am and traveled together to Amsterdam by train. The first few hundred metres out of Central Station were too crowded to even think of riding. Here we are readying ourselves to hop on the unis and

FirstJuke wrote: Should I try to find original balast parts or go with newer technology? All jukeboxes use commonly available fluorescent lamp ballast transformers which you can get at any hardware/electrical store. Jukeboxes use ballasts designed for PREHEAT operation (it uses a starter mounted in a starter socket either near the ballast itself or near the fluorescent tube itself. The

I think the whole "distance learning" scene is going to expand. Maybe quite a bit. You're going to see competition for students, price-cutting, and they're going to make the curriculum even easier, and its all going to go on hard drives. Fire all the human teachers, bolt a coinbox onto the computer, and when the test score is over some threshold, the printer prints out a degree.

Straydog wrote: I think the whole "distance learning" scene is going to expand. Maybe quite a bit. You're going to see competition for students, price-cutting, and they're going to make the curriculum even easier, and its all going to go on hard drives. Fire all the human teachers, bolt a coinbox onto the computer, and when the test score is over some threshold, the printer prints