Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 26 Jan 2010 at 19:47, Dave McGuire wrote:
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.
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.
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