2 Feb
2006
2 Feb
'06
2:36 p.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com>
To: <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 5:20 PM
Subject: Re: Old Computer Collecting vs Electronics Building
On 2/2/2006 at 5:08 PM Teo Zenios wrote:
stapled
the last thing a parent wants their kids to do
these days is be a
commodity
coder, engineer, or electronics repairman because
of the low pay and
offshoring. We are turning into a nation of MBAs, burger flippers,
salespeople, and paper shufflers.
OT: I picked up the current issues of DDJ, Electronic Design and EETimes
this morning out of the mail. The DDJ ran to a grand total of 56
pages--it's so thin that there's no spine on the binding--it's just
together. ED isn't much better and EET was
thinner than my Sunday
newspaper magazine supplement. (P.S. Bob Pease rambled on about
crampons).
Signs of the times? Is the computer business in the US running out of
steam?
Cheers,
Chuck
Go buy the one of each of the top 10 computer brands here in the US and list
all the parts manufactured here in the US, 5 years from now do the same
thing and show me the parts that were designed here in the US. All the
manufacturing is done overseas mostly, now the design work is going there
also. I would think the vast majority of EE's are doing installation work
and not design here anymore (those still working the profession).