Hacker Test

Are you a hardware hacker?  Here is a test to help you answer that
question:

Does the smell of smoldering solder flux make you salivate?
Do you carry wire wrap tools in your pocket protector instead of
  pens?
Do you use wire wrap wire for string, because string is too hard to
  find around the house?
Do you know the pinouts of more than 10 different 74xx series chips
  by heart?
Do you disassemble a new computer to see what it looks like, even
  before booting up for the first time?
Do most of your desert plates have soldering iron burns on them?
Do most of your fingers have soldering iron burns on them?
Do you own a pocket multimeter instead of a calculator?
Can you say the resistor "color code rhyme" in less than 3 seconds?
Do you own an oscilloscope?
Is Thomas Edison's photograph in your wallet?
Do you spend more than $20 at the electronics store, when you only went
  in to pick up a fifty cent microcircuit?
Do you use antistatic foam for a pillow when you fall asleep at the
  workbench -- after a long hacking session?
Do you spend more money on electronics than groceries every month?
Do you own more than 2 computers?
Have you built your own computer?
Do you design noisy gizmos with lots of LEDs to entertain your kids,
  instead of buying them HE MAN toys?


Results:
Number of YES answers = rating:
0 = Dunno a positron from a negatron.
4 = Gizmo dabbler
8 = Blossoming hardware hacker.
12 = Prolific hardware hacker, and future design engineer.
All Yes = Hackaholic, take two electrons and call me in a nanosecond.

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