29 Jul
2004
29 Jul
'04
3:36 p.m.
At 12:36 AM 7/29/04 +0100, you wrote:
There is nothing wrong with equipment that's no longer in production (in
fact I think just about every instrument I use is discontinued), but you
can't _depeend_ on a supply of them. I've not seen these units in the UK,
for example.
I'm surprised. They're very common here in the US and very popular.
Well I know I'm a lot more selective about my TV and movies than the
majority of people but are you trying to tell me that there's NOTHING worth
watching on TV or movies? What do you have against women, beer and sports?
I watch _very_ little TV, and wouldn't bother at all if I had to pay for
the license (as opposed to watching my parents' set). UK TV is pretty
darn awful....
Same here but we now get enough channels that you can USUALLY find
something worth watching. The Discovery, Wings and History channels are
actually coming out with some pretty good stuff.
I don't beleive those are still in production (and
if they are, they're
not cheap new). And if I buy second-hand equipment, I expect to have to
repair it, and I would guess that service information is not (easily)
available.
You're right, they're not still in production but they handle every
EPROM, PAL and PROM that I'm interested in so what's wrong with them? The
> >> >> your time than to reinvent the EPROM programmer for the 10,000th
time?
> >> >
> >>
> >> >Care to suggest some???
> >>
> >> Is this a trick question? I guess you don't get out much.
Here's the
short list:
Cold beer, hot cars, hot women, sports, tv, movies, old
computers, friends, traveling, pets, reading, family, tending my garden,
taking care of my house, etc etc etc.
I truely pity anyoe who regards drinking alcohol, women, sports, TV (at
least the TV we get over here), (watching) movies as being more
interesting than constructing anything.
Nothing agaist women, except that hacking is generally a lot more fun
:-).
Women can be "hacked" too :-)
Don't like beer, in fact don't like alcohol much at all (apart from
cleaning disk heads :-)).
You've met me. you know I'm not the athletic type. And I have absolutely
_no_ intersest in spectator sports (or watching overpaid idiots doing
anything for that matter). In fact the only thing I'd like less than
watching sport is participating in it!
I enjoy some of the more technical sports including auto and airplane
races (the Reno Air Races are lots of fun!). Some like the robot battles
but I never cared for it. But there are some contests for home built
robotic helicopters and the like that are pretty darned interesting.
I assume you think the chap who wrote 'The Voice of the Crystal' and
'Instruments of Amplification' was wasting his time.
I've never heard of either one.
His home-made valves
and transistors are, to be blunt, lousy. But he had a
go, and that, I
think, was well worth doing. I intend trying some of his experiments
sometime too. Maybe I'll learn something...
I have nothing against building something like an inovative crystal
radios (in fact, I'm working on one now) or vaccum tubes but I just don't
see the point in building a common, readily available and cheap device like
an EPROM programmer. I build that kind of thing when I was a kid and I just
don't see that I'd get anything out of building another one.
Joe