A friend of mine refused to buy modern SD Cards because there was no way he
was going to fill them. Trouble is that although smaller SD cards were
available they were way more expensive (being discontinued and therefore
rare and valuable).. He struggled with buying a larger card only to waste
most of it, or buy a smaller one and waste his money....
Dave Wade
G4UGM
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at
classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Mark J.
Blair
Sent: 15 June 2015 21:56
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: using new technology on old machines. Was: PDP-12 Restoration
at the RICM
On Jun 15, 2015, at 13:46 , Pontus Pihlgren
<pontus at Update.UU.SE>
wrote:
On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 04:55:57PM +0000, tony duell wrote:
Unfortunately I believe you. Use at least a thousand times more
components than you need to.
Actually it's just two, a Teensy and a usb cable. (Sorry, I couldn't
resist).
LOL! I must admit that I used to scorn those durned kids using Arduinos to
do
the job of a 555. But then I pulled my head out of my
ass and realized
that
times change, nowadays a microcontroller is as cheap
and common
component as a 555 was when I was a snotty kid, and the new-fangled
"maker" movement with its Arduinos and serial-controlled addressable LEDs
and conductive thread is keeping younger people designing things and
making them instead of just being dumb consumers. It's all good stuff! And
once I got a better idea of how much it costs to keep an engineer
breathing
for an hour, I also realized that it often makes more
sense to overkill
the heck
out of a task with a $20 micro board than it would to
spend even a half
hour
longer doing it the "right" way.
--
Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net>
http://www.nf6x.net/