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To: William Tell
capt. norm said: "I wonder how long it will take them to out-source the jobs to India."

Don't you mean Japan?

No...wait...that was a generation ago.

Ya' nailed me there because I've been out of that business (but not the hobby) for quite a length of time.

I wrote my last commercial application in 1998 and it is till in use today, but in a short time, it may as well have been written in Egyptian hieroglyphics.

15 posted on 06/29/2007 4:04:31 PM PDT by capt. norm (Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.)
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To: capt. norm
capt. norm said: "I wrote my last commercial application in 1998 and it is till in use today, but in a short time, it may as well have been written in Egyptian hieroglyphics."

For many years I worked in a group making custom tooling for a semiconductor fabrication operation. We expected our projects to be productive for a minimum of five years and considered extrapolating past ten years to be totally unrealistic. Sounds like your application has done just fine.

When I visit the plant (which is quite infrequently now) I take considerable pleasure in seeing that a controller I built in 1975 is still operating. I would be very surprised if anybody still there knows that. Or cares.

17 posted on 06/29/2007 4:19:40 PM PDT by William Tell (RKBA for California (rkba.members.sonic.net) - Volunteer by contacting Dave at rkba@sonic.net)
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