Ralf Mardorf <info.mard...@rocketmail.com> writes: > On Fri, 2014-04-25 at 21:49 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> On Fri, 2014-04-25 at 15:12 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: >> > Kinda seems like the (de) evolution of cars, doesn't it? As a kid, >> > I could tune up my beater flat head 6 1959 Plymouth in 20 minutes with >> > a 10 inch adjustable and a gapping tool. With today's cars, I'm lucky >> > to be able to change the air filter. >> >> That's a nice analogy :). We could repair our old cars using a hammer >> and screwdriver, today we need to be computer experts to repair a car. > > For example, to correct idling mixture there under the hood was a screw > on the carburetor, nowadays there's a connector for a computer inside > the driver's cab. Assumed your car strikes in the middle of the > wilderness, what kind of car do you prefer?
I've never had a car stop dead due to the idle mixture going out of spec. When something has gone seriously enough wrong with one of my cars to stop it, the fact that it had a carburetor (as my daily driver, a '78 Chrysler Newport, does) or a computer has been totally irrelevant. I maintain that anybody who is afraid of modern fuel injection has never rebuilt a ThermoQuad. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1bwqebu4uu....@snowball.wb.pfeifferfamily.net