Can't build a TV? Heathkit. On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 2:40 PM, ben <bfranc...@jetnet.ab.ca> wrote:
> On 1/13/2016 3:29 PM, Murray McCullough wrote: > >> I was reading in a dated magazine article on the "freedom to build(a >> PC)": Well you can't build phone; can't build a car; can't build a >> refrigerator; can't build a TV. Do we have the freedom to build a >> computer? We did in the earliest days of the PC- the 8-bit era. Heck, >> that's all one could do! It was limited and is to this day. AMD vs >> INTEL control what we can do. Has anything really changed? >> >> Happy computing. >> >> Murray :) >> >> >> I still think you can build a Car, but VW parts are not as common > as it was once. > Ben. > PS: BUILD A PDP-K, a nice 18 bit that never was. > > -- Ian S. King, MSIS, MSCS, Ph.D. Candidate The Information School <http://ischool.uw.edu> Dissertation: "Why the Conversation Mattered: Constructing a Sociotechnical Narrative Through a Design Lens Archivist, Voices From the Rwanda Tribunal <http://tribunalvoices.org> Value Sensitive Design Research Lab <http://vsdesign.org> University of Washington There is an old Vulcan saying: "Only Nixon could go to China."
