22 May
2012
22 May
'12
11:31 a.m.
In article <4FBA37E8.19297.111D0BD at cclist.sydex.com>,
"Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com> writes:
In which case, it could eb argued that it is a Good Thing for peopel to
acquire hardware skills so that the number of such people does not become
zero.
I personally find it ridiculaor that people are suggesting that something
like a paper tape reader, for which the mechanical parts could be made in
any model engineer's workshop and the electronics is a handful of parts
should be emulated by a scanner (many moe photodetectors than necessary
and a powerful processor to prewcess the images from said scanner. Please
stop trhwing silicon ant the problem!
-tony
On 21 May 2012 at 11:14, David Griffith wrote:
The number of people with software/mashup skills is much, much larger
than the number of people with hardware skills. Why not simply build a paper tape reader?
It's not that hard to do.
My gosh yes. If people can build piano-roll readers, a paper tape
reader would be child's play.