MOTM

Yeah, this really bothers me, too.

25 years ago the idea of having a full-color, 8ppm printer on your desk was
science fiction... maybe in another 25 we will design analog circuits on our
PCs and a peripheral will spit out SMD prototypes.

But I doubt it.

More likely the synthesizers we are building today will become extremely
rare and valuable, while more of the world moves to virtual. At least that
gives me some peace of mind.


 -----Original Message-----
From: 	The Old Crow [mailto:oldcrow@...] 
Sent:	Friday, 09 March, 2001 1:52 PM
To:	motm@yahoogroups.com
Subject:	Re: [motm] My socket view


On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Paul Schreiber wrote:

> doesn't warrant sockets. 10 years from now, YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO GET
> DIP ICs ANYWAY so it's sort of the point of diminishing returns.

  This bothers me.  How are the esrtwhile 10 year-olds going to learn the
ropes of circuit design and general tinkering if they have to have a
$350,000 SMT auto-insert station to assemble a board?  An entire culture
rooted in solderless breadboards and point-to-point wiring on perfboards
is going to die in a single generation.

  I grieve for the hobbyist in 2024.

Crow

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