Errrrr...Heathkit is long gone. However, there are at least a few car guys that might have a thing or two to say about the original post.
-- Will On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 5:54 PM, Ian S. King <isk...@uw.edu> wrote: > 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."
