Early fascination for electronics

Well, it has to be something!

I may have been 4 or maybe only 3 and a half, not sure. Anyway I remember one time I looked into a wardrobe in my home and there was a circuit board! I had this... fascinated feeling, I saw the components, these small resistors, capacitors and so on. I understood that something happened in them. I was fascinated.
It took years until I began myself with simple electronics in a real way. First when I was about ten. I bought a kit by Philips to build different circuits. And I did and had some fun with it. I still have it but I think at least one original transistor is missing.

A few years later I started to solder electronics. I soldered some multivibrators with leds. Later I made simple circuit boards. One was an homebuilt FM-transmitter which was quite funny. Illegal of course but now a long time ago. A while after that I became interested in cb-radio and in what I found out, the possibility to talk abroad, with people in other countries, more about that in another blog.

My biggest advance in electronics was in school, I was 19. Everyone was supposed to do a project in one of the topic classes (probably wrong english...) and I thought about building a digital delay for audio. I was interested in music and actually, by that time I bought my first synthesizer.

I will try to add some pictures of the results back then, in 1985 a bit later on.