From: Michael M. Butler (mmb@spies.com)
Date: Sun Jan 12 2003 - 04:36:11 MST
Eugen Leitl wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Michael M. Butler wrote:
>
>
>>Another somewhat saturnine observation: it's another nail in the coffin
>>of hobby electronics--hacking the internals of a throwaway calculator
>
>
> Actually, it's the very opposite.
I've already answered the thrust of 'gene's reply elsewhere. Fab becomes
easier when you plunk down the cash and pay for the "razor blades", but
entry-level hacking by a youth with a $7.00 soldering iron becomes harder.
Bring on the $7.00 Desktop Santa machines. By then, everything else will have
changed out of recognition. If we're lucky.
MMB
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