[sdiy] Mired in Old Technology

[Grant Richter]

>"Actually I'm not seeing many new ideas.  That's the thing.  Designing a
>better mousetrap is good, but I'm seeing what looks like people building
>what's already available and/or doing things that are so old and outdated.
>I'm seeing a lot of talk about crude 8-bit audio DACs and wavetable
>oscillators and ancient 6502 processors.  It's like I'm back in the 1970's
>again."

It may be useful to note that the so called "advances" in technology, were
advances in the economics of production of the technology, not necessarily
in the absolute performance of the technology. The net effect has always
been to return less actual dollar value in parts to the customer with each
technological "generation".

Soft-Synths are the best example, where you can pay $400 for 50 cents worth
of plastic disc, which is useless by itself, except as a coaster.

Also, any historian would find the idea of viewing something from 30 years
ago as "old" to be laughable. In the actual human timeline, not the virtual
technology timeline, "old" is measured in centuries, not decades.