[sdiy] History of SDIY?

[Crys]

> > you're saying it's only DIY if you build something which already 
> exists?
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> Yes. That is what makes DIY different from inventing or research and 
> development. In my definition(*) DIY is achieving the invention or the 
> idea of someone else by your own means. DIY never invents something. A 
> DIYer may adopt someone others invention for his/her needs. So 
> building a module that does not exist as a buyable product, but using 
> existing ideas (lets say a two-VCF Module with crossmodulation) is 
> DIY, because the VCF already has been invented.

disagree. I DIY stuff that never existed before. So i am a 
diyer/inventor as are many people on this list.

Whole lotta discussion about a potential book.
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