13 Jan
2016
13 Jan
'16
3:01 p.m.
Errrrr...Heathkit is long gone.
However, there are at least a few car guys that might have a thing or
two to say about the original post.
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Will
On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 5:54 PM, Ian S. King <isking at uw.edu> wrote:
Can't build a TV? Heathkit.
On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 2:40 PM, ben <bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca> wrote:
On 1/13/2016 3:29 PM, Murray McCullough wrote:
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Ian S. King, MSIS, MSCS, Ph.D. Candidate
The Information School <http://ischool.uw.edu>
Dissertation: "Why the Conversation Mattered: Constructing a Sociotechnical
Narrative Through a Design Lens
Archivist, Voices From the Rwanda Tribunal <http://tribunalvoices.org>
Value Sensitive Design Research Lab <http://vsdesign.org>
University of Washington
There is an old Vulcan saying: "Only Nixon could go to China." I was reading in a dated magazine article on the
"freedom to build(a
PC)": Well you can't build phone; can't build a car; can't build a
refrigerator; can't build a TV. Do we have the freedom to build a
computer? We did in the earliest days of the PC- the 8-bit era. Heck,
that's all one could do! It was limited and is to this day. AMD vs
INTEL control what we can do. Has anything really changed?
Happy computing.
Murray :)
I still think you can build a Car, but VW parts are not as common
as it was once.
Ben.
PS: BUILD A PDP-K, a nice 18 bit that never was.