Korea In My Heart

Since I stumbled across "Cruel Love" on my TV late one night, I've been a fan of Korean drama shows. The more of them I watched, the more I liked it. My timing was perfect in that two shows began running every weeknight, and they are still my favorites. The first one was "Likable or Not", which really translates better as "I hate you, but it's okay". Definitely the best drama of all time. The other was "Unstoppable Marriage". The second one was a great mish-mash of some serious episodes, comedy episodes and a continuing story-line. If you are sick and tired of regular television, give Korean dramas a try. I think you'll like the stories - they are usually warm and thoughtful, with a good moral story, or at least you see people who try to better themselves and are shown as heroes. Definitely worth your time.   After this, I bought Pimsleur's Korean Levels I and II. Kills me they never offered a "III", but the ...

My first electronics job right out of TSTI (TSTC/Waco) was to work for Tandy Computer Assembly in San Antonio, Texas. They were putting together the Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 4 computers when I arrived, and production was in full-swing. My first months of the job was working in 'the back' which had a sign over the entry "Engineering". Actually, the engineering group was to the right as you came into the cavernous and claustrophobia-inducing board repair area. We spend days back there; they'd bring a box full of Model 4 boards to your desk, which was equipped with two screens, a 20MHz oscilloscope, and a Weller soldering station. Each board had a while 8-1/2 by 14" card with it describing all the test areas it had been through, and what area it had fallen out of with a scribble of the error the board produced. We'd pry the Z-80 microprocessor off the board, slap the 40-pin ribbon cable into it (which was a TRS-80 Model III board which had been massively mod...