26 Oct
1999
26 Oct
'99
5:06 a.m.
At 00:43 26-10-1999 -0600, Dr. Green was heard to
comment:
You seem to have missed my point, or didn't read the email being
refered to. If we consider making PCBs on topic, which I do,
why don't we consider making cabinets or cases for the same
computers on topic? Do we stop re-creating components at the
board level?
What I found to be amusing was that the spam was related
to the mailing list. Most (all?) of the time you get spam
on a mailing list it has absolutely nothing to do with the
topics under discussion, but in this case it seem to fit in.
I read through the first paragraph or two before I realized
it was intended as a contribution to our discussions.
--
Dr. Mark Green mark(a)cs.ualberta.ca
Professor (780) 492-4584
Director, Research Institute for Multimedia Systems (RIMS)
Department of Computing Science (780) 492-1071 (FAX)
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2H1, Canada
With all the discussion of building your PCBs at
home, and the
wonderful VAX wars, I didn't think it was that far off topic :-).
Actually, it strikes me that building PCBs at home is perfectly on-topic
for the list if it involves re-creating "classic" replacement components
that are no longer made.
Case in point: DEC, at one time, made a supplemental +/-15V switching