24 Jan
2007
24 Jan
'07
12:20 a.m.
Many retro-computer people I know have full time
careers, one is a surgeon
(he can't solder to save his life), a majority just don't have the time to
I am seriously puzzled how anyone who has the manual dexterity to become
a surgeon is unable to learn to solder.
Maybe they don't want to spend the time, but I would have thought they
could learn said skill in 30 minutes or less if they wanted to.
In any cane, I fail to see what the ability to solder has to do with
anything. I was particularly careful with my choice of words, and
'troubleshooting' != 'repair' . You should not need to solder to do the
former, unelss it's to solder wires to testpoints so as to be able to
look at signals on a PCB in a cardcage or something.
do more than play the odd game or type in a magazine
listing.
IMHO they're missing most of the fun, but anyway....
-tony