[sdiy] The future of synth DIY

[Paul Perry]

At 01:25 PM 2/03/01 +0100, Martin Czech  wrote:

>Discrete diy soldering and integration of monolithic circuits have
>nothing in common. Design engineers for monolithic chips spend
>*a lot* of time to think about "possible" errors in advance.
>You wouldn't do that in discrete circuits, because it's so easy
>to simply solder it and measure afterwards.

There is an analogy here with computer programming.
When I did it in the 60s, you had a deck of cards and got one (or
if you were really lucky and had inside contacts) two runs a day.
So you thought damn hard about whether the syntax and logic were right.
Perhaps if we could only solder one component per hour, we would 
become better designers? just a thought..

paul perry melbourne australia
(having so much trouble with this PWM phaser, that I am actually 
*THINKING* about it!)