On 9 Dec 2006 at 18:42, Dave McGuire wrote:
It seems to me that many of these types of
attitudes stem from the
"if it's old, it's bad, and if it's not new, it's old"
mentality that
has been adopted by the obedient mass of consumers.
My reaction upon getting my first NE555 was "Isn't that just the most
clever thing you've ever seen?--and in an 8 pin DIP, too!"
Similar to my first thoughts on playing with an NE555. My second
thought on using it was "where the fsck is all this hash on the supply
line coming from?!"
Gordon