8 Jun
2002
8 Jun
'02
3:27 p.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
It used to be that we encouraged people to learn and do.
> Any suggestions as to how these trends can
be reversed?
Thanks Tony . . . . The last big electronics
boom started with WWII
surplus and a gentleman named Howard Anthony who started manufacturing
kits. Even simple things can still be built, and from those beginnings
we can hatch a new generation of hardware hackers/builders.
There is nothing like building something from scratch, and it works firt
time out; if it doesn't, figuring out what the problem is. Can't get
that from calling 800 numbers and reciting your VISA and MC numbers over
the phone.
Gary Hildebrand
St. Joseph, MO
You basically hit at the heart of the matter.
The reality is that US
society on the whole does not do hacking at a hardware level anymore
(which I suspect is the case in other parts of the world) and Radio Shack <snip>
> Now we encourage people to buy and expend.