[sdiy] Real cause of DIY death

[harrybissell]

Dissing the 'old man' inline   :^P  (snipp'd, butchered, taken out of context :^)

Paul Schreiber wrote:

> Simply put: lack of what people now consider 'amazing'.
>
> a) getting the Digi-Key catalog when it was 1 sheet, folded and mailed

wow you ARE old.  (I don't remember Digi-key as one sheet :^)

> b) "No time to test these!" (obscure reference)

no... not obscure. That would be "Poly-Paks" thank you  (sometimes they even sold
UNMARKED ICs... you could buy a CHIP TESTER from them to find out what they were.
Doubtless they would call every one of them 'good')

> c) sitting in the high school library, staring with my mouth open transfixed for
> like 3 hours when Popular Electronics had a Nixie-tube digital clock project.
> They actually *explained* in great detail how they worked. They made it seem
> like *I* could make it work! I remember clearly thinking "You mean to tell me
> they can count the 60Hz AC signals with CHIPS??!?"

Paul is jiving you youngsters here. When HE went to 'high school' the clocks
were mand of glass, and filled with sand.  Silica, Paul... not Silicon. :^P

> Today, there is a Dell ad in the paper for a 2GHz PC with 120GB drive and a flat
> screen for like $399. Yawn....ZZzzzzz......Oh look a 5GB 'no-name' MP3 player at
> Fry's for $79......Burp..........pass the donuts.
>
> Personally, synth-DIY for me was fuel by *amazement*. What does a 15yr old boy
> find 'amazing' today?

uhh... (could it be) girls ???

> Paul S.
> I'm gonna go solder me some MOTM-380 LFOs, dammit

no, you should have said...
"I'm going to go solder me some MOTM-380 LFOs... ZZZZZzzzzzz..........."

H^) harry  (going back to work some NEW module :^)