once upon a time there were 5 technicians. Two technicians were so lazy (one was me) we learned computers and layout software instead of red & blue tape only. What happened to the three industrious red & blue tape technicians: one moved to manufacturing (assembly and test), the other two were laid off.
Regards, Jeff Adolphs Lake Shore Cryotronics, Inc. Westerville, Ohio -----Original Message----- From: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 1:34 PM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] Re[3]: View PCB 3D At 10:28 PM 2/7/2002 +1000, robi artwork wrote: >I don't see a 3D Viewer as a must - If you do you homework - properly >It seems to me more of a laziness of the engineer to look after the >height restictions. This, I will note, was an offensive comment. "Laziness" is perjorative; if we look at what it means we will realize that a good engineer is, in certain ways, lazy. A great deal of progress has come from the kind of "laziness" that Robi is dismissing. A desire for computers to do accounting work, something that did not exist when I was born -- except for some business machines that might possibly qualify as computers in the most limited sense --, could certainly be "more of a laziness of an accountant to do his arithmetic." >I never had a 3D Viewer - I nevere want one. We can see that we would never consider Robi for any complex work! >If things need to be placed in a low area - you just need to take care of >it and watch out. Well, duh! I did some pretty complex work with tape and mylar. But I was pretty lazy, I did not like to take all that time to stand there with someone else verifying all the connections against the schematic. So I took a VIC-20 computer and wrote software to allow fast entry of net lists, optimized to minimize keystrokes, and then integrate the information from all layers of a design to make a single net list (the vias were numbered). This net list was then compared to a net list made from the schematic. Using diazo copies of the design allowed us to check the design at the pencil stage, in parallel with the taping step. It was, in fact, more accurate than the usual two-person checking procedure. Yes, I was lazy, and the result was better design, faster, and faster equals either cheaper or more lucrative or both. And both are desireable. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Abdulrahman Lomax Easthampton, Massachusetts USA * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
