3 Oct
1998
3 Oct
'98
noon
Homebrewing is still going on. Its just not as
prevalent any more because
each year the art dies a little more.
I think the tales of homebrewing's demise are being a bit exaggerated.
Certainly, the character of homebrewing has changed greatly over
the past 20 years. It is true that some of today's tools of the trade -
for example, a good PAL/GAL programmer - are
more expensive than many of tools of 1975. But in real dollars,
today's $800 device programmer is much cheaper than, say, an 8080A
CPU, which had a street price of US$250 or so in 1975.
And many folks are doing very interesting things with programmable
devices. You can get into PIC programming for well under $100, and
there's lots of really interesting things you can do with that.
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3 Oct
3 Oct
12:33 p.m.
On Sat, 3 Oct 1998 CLASSICCMP(a)timaxp.trailing-edge.com wrote:
I think the tales of homebrewing's demise are
being a bit exaggerated.
Certainly, the character of homebrewing has changed greatly over
the past 20 years. It is true that some of today's tools of the trade -
for example, a good PAL/GAL programmer - are
more expensive than many of tools of 1975. But in real dollars,
today's $800 device programmer is much cheaper than, say, an 8080A
CPU, which had a street price of US$250 or so in 1975.
Well, good. I'm sure you are right. There's just not a forum where
people get together to share their stuff like there used to be (or at
least I'm just not privvy to them). I'm hoping that by promoting homebrew
at the VCF it will help spawn homebrew clubs again where people get
together to share and learn from each other. I would love to go to
something like this, but I don't think there's anything like this even in
the Silicon Valley. Well, I recently learned of the Homebrew Robotics
club, which I am going to definitely get involved with when I embark upon
my sabbatical. But we need more of these clubs where teenagers can come
to learn something fun and useful instead of just playing DOOM. I realize
there are many teenagers out there already involved in electronics and
such but I think there could be many more who just need a start.
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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