Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Magnus Danielson writes: > > >>But to answer your question, younger people is still attracted and there is >>still plenty of people having the right mind for these things around. > > > A major difference for these younger people is that the technology > of today is reverse engineering resistant.
True > There is practically nothing to learn today by taking things apart: > you can't see how they work. True On a similar topic, what worries me now is that it will get more and more difficult for hobbiests to build things, now many chips are only available in surface mount. That trend will continue. I can't see too many children being able to build circuits the way I used to, since it will be very difficult/impossible to solder components together. That must have a knock-on effect later in life, since nobody would have taken much interst in electronics as a child, since they were unable to make anything. Perhaps circuits published in magazines will need to use power transistors, just so they are of a size that is practical to construct without specialist tools and skill. Perhaps children of the future will have to build your own 741 out of a bunch of 2N3055's. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list time-nuts@febo.com https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts