[sdiy] Learning electronics now - was Real cause of DIY death

[Rainer Buchty]

>Oh, i get it! You're all from the middle ages... ;)

You know, in lectures and seminars I usually joke about the "stone age"  
when referring to late 70s to mid 80s, i.e. the time of DIY-kit and
early home computers. The "kids" just can't imagine what it means to
have a single kB at their hands which, even worse, has also to serve as
video memory, when they have multi-megabytes just as *cache* memory.

Heck, we even got PhD students lately whose first machines were x86 PCs 
and who just don't know that there was a time when not everything was 
x86 and mainly Microsoft.

So for my own part, I start feeling *very* old when it comes to that.

Rainer (33)