Exactly. That was an unenlightened attitude for the old-timers to have back then, and it's no smarter now.
-- john, KE5FX > "John Miles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > To the chip designer, a "component" is probably a subcircuit model that > > exists only in software. To me, a "component" is the resulting > chip, with > > pins you can solder stuff to. To the kid, the "component" is > the monolithic > > WiFi card. There is little to be gained by assigning relative levels of > > merit to different abstraction levels, or assuming that society > is doomed > > because people rarely work their way down the abstraction > hierarchy without > > a compelling need. > > When I was a kid, all the oldest hams looked down on us young'uns who > built transmitters etc. To them, making a radio was to make a spark gap > transmitter involving wood and metal lathes, varnish, copper wire > and installing your own cloth insulation. We didn't know how lucky > we were, buying resistors and capacitors off the shelf instead of making > them from scratch :-). > > Tim. > > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list [email protected] https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
