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To: George from New England

Electronic innards are no fun anymore, though. It's all hidden in some cheap chip that usually performs nowhere near the level of the discrete circuits of the past. And those were fun to poke at and fix if there were problems. Now you just throw the item out and buy a new one if it breaks.


50 posted on 02/17/2006 12:28:46 PM PST by PCBMan (...so we just called him Fred)
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To: PCBMan

Disposable society BUMP


108 posted on 02/17/2006 1:14:57 PM PST by weegee ("...the left can only take power through deception" -W. Chambers, former mem of Communist Party USA)
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