19 Dec
2005
19 Dec
'05
6:02 p.m.
On Monday 19 December 2005 12:13 pm, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 12/19/2005 at 1:27 PM Ethan Dicks wrote:
Always made me wonder why manufacturers didn't color-code (like resistors)
IC's. It'd certainly be a lot easier to see.
--Chuck
Costs more.
Ever wonder why almost all car batteries sold these days have cases that are
black? It's because the material is almost all recycled plastic, and that's
the easiest color to end up with...
I remember watching those ads in the back of Popular Electronics and other
magazines, way back when, where a "7400" chip started out at several
dollars, and then just kept on going down. 50 cents! Lower! :-)
There was a point later on where I found out what "commodity market" meant,
and which made me thankful for the fact that I could now get my hands on a
whole lot of hardware that I'd not otherwise ever be able to even get close
to. This sort of economic pressure doesn't allow for such niceties as color
coding, unfortunately, it would make that manufacturer non-competetive.
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Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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