22 Feb
2012
22 Feb
'12
9:18 p.m.
I'm
afraid my electronic skills (which are close to zero) won't
allow me to do that.
C: It doesn't require any electronics skills at all, but
simply
stringing wires between pins. been doing it for decades, it may seem a bit like
walking, something so
obvious and natural it's barely even worth mentioning. But to someone
who's new to it, it's well, like walking to a toddler: new, difficult,
requiring concentration, and even when it's done usually not done all
that well.
Of course, the only way to get good at it is to practice. But it's not
clear to me that ama@ wants to get good at it (as weird as that may
seem to me, especially for someone in this hobby).
I can understand that people who wish to run the old software under
emulation on new machines probably won't have to get involved in hardware
repairs. But if you want to run the vintage machines, you almost
certainly will. Old hardware does fail (although not as often as you
might expect), and there are very few people who repair it commercially
(at least not at prices you could afford :-)).
So IMHO if you want to run the old machines they you will be forced into
learnign how to trace faults and repair them. Not that that's
necessarily a bad thing if you enjoy it (some do, some don't...)
-tony