Who's rewired their house for this hobby?

[Jon Elson]

On 11/26/2014 02:22 PM, Mike Stein wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Holm Tiffe" 
> <holm at freibergnet.de>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2014 2:06 AM
>
>> As I wrote before: Do you really think over there that 
>> all people in
>> Countries that aren't part of the US are some sort of 
>> Idiots?
>> I'm a German, are German Engeneeers stupid too?
>
We do have a special category in the US for "German 
(over)engineering".
I first heard this when a friend of mine in high school 
worked over the summer
for a Mercedes dealer.  They were talking about automatic 
transmissions
that had something like 45 valves in the shift logic, while 
US transmissions
typically had 8 or fewer.

I think the basic thrust has always been that the German 
engineers missed
the part about doing the most with the minimum number of 
moving parts.

Jon