27 Jan
2010
27 Jan
'10
5:09 p.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 26 Jan 2010 at 19:47, Dave McGuire wrote:
The odd thing there is that I've seen knobs and switches and such 'tactile'
devices at the high end of the market - so it sounds almost as though buttons
and displays has become cheaper than the "old fashioned" way of doing things
on the low-end stuff.
That's pretty scary stuff. I will laugh
in the face of the
"engineer" who designs a 32-bit processor into a refrigerator.
Remove the "32-bit" from your sentence and you my sentiments.
True story--my sister-in-law is legally blind and usually quite self-
sufficient. When she and her husband decided to remodel their
kitchen, they couldn't find a new electric range with knobs that
would give a tactile indication of which burner was on and the level. I like my radios with tuning knobs and really thougth
the volume knob
on my old HP PC keyboard was pretty neat.
I've got a real hankering after 1970's Pioneer audio gear at the moment - not
because of the audio quality (or lack thereof) but because their knobs and
switches had such a nice feel to them...
cheers
Jules