[sdiy] Opening Boxes - was Taking a Step towards

[Tom Arnold]

On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 03:49:15PM -0600, TIm Daugard wrote:
> I wait till it breaks to open it. I don't want to know how little the circuit
> board is in the huge box. I remember peaking through the air vents on stereo
> equipment in the late 70's and being amazed at how little wass in the boxes
> everyone "had to have".

Or the early to mid 80s when the "Must look like components/must look like
a rack mounted stereo" craze hit.  Sounddesign, MCS ( JCPenny store brand ),
and many others we had to repair.  HUGE box.  I mean some of those things were
8U tall.  Open it up, *EVERYTHING* is mounted on the front panel.  Way
at the very back is this tiny tiny little power transformer.  Some of the
"upscale" ones had actual lead weights in the bottom to make them feel
like they were something.  Turntables with crappy little DC motors like
you'd find on cassette decks.  My friends would always laugh at me because I
had this ancient rec-o-kut turntable with a belt drive syncronis motor
large enough for an electric golf cart and a 30kg platter that took about
15 seconds to come up to speed.

Consumer electronics are depressing.

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