I was given a copy of the International Telephone and Telegraph Corporations's Reference Data for Radio Engineers, 4th edition, printed 1957.
Dry but interesting read, especially on topics like forecasts of high frequency propagation, magnetic amplifiers, and Optimum current distribution for broadside arrays.
More nomographs and formulae than I could shake a stick at!
RenegadeMime told me he found it in a Salvation Army bookcase for fifty cents, which he claims makes it the second cheapest present he's ever given.
He also tells me that he did several 'Castle Grayskull / Quake One ' mashup maps back in 1999 with the idea of making a episode called 'the Four Powers of Grayskull'.
He promised to post them when he can dig them out of his musty archives.
Seeing as his archives comprise a terabyte of networked storage, two suitcases of CD-ROMs, and a card cabinet full of ROSM (Random Obsolete Storage Material), I'm not holding my breath.
He's also claimed in the past to have 'topless pictures of Gillian Anderson' and 'blueprints for an atomic device - y'know, the one that swedish university student designed'

...I'll take this with a grain of salt, but still, the only thing more exciting than Chebishev and Butterworth performance with constant-K and equivalent configurations is the prospect of slaughtering fiends before the blank black stare of Castle Grayskull.

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