Re: Hi
- From: T i m <news@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 19:22:30 GMT
On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 17:17:12 +0100, Tim Streater
<tim.streater@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <ekddd3db1qu34ved2pj6dq06dgsvcmpn6h@xxxxxxx>,
T i m <news@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[snip]
Quite right, well said. However, none of that detracts from the fact
that from a personal support pov, a PC is bother easier and cheaper to
fix (and back to my point) and for me and millions of others, fun to
build / upgrade.
Where's the interest in getting standard components and fixing them
together?
I don't know how to help you Tim, you had better ask anyone who enjoys
making things?
I had much more fun at my last job
Than whom?
where, on a couple of occasions, we
needed small single board systems with a couple of I/O ports. Because
the hardware engineer hadn't checked the board layout, when we got the
boards back (about 10 units) they all had errors, didn't they, and as
software engineer I had to sort it. So I scored a logic state analyser,
attached the socking great clip to the Z80 CPU, and fixed the timing and
the memory circuits. Once I fixed one with a few blue wires and cut
traces, I handed them back to the hardware guy, who got the rest fixed.
Then I wrote the firmware to drive them.
That was more like it. What you're talking about, you may as well work
for Toyota building their cars.
No thanks, you see that's different .. .. this may help you
understand. ..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_production
All the best ..
T i m
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