Re: small 400V pnp sot-23 transistor, xxxTA94, etc.

On Sat, 14 Oct 2006 17:43:28 GMT,
Joerg <notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
in Msg. <4l9Yg.22651$Ij.19100@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

That's the beauty of today's jelly-bean parts. People say that our youth
doesn't have the available resources to build electronics projects.
That's nonsense. Sure we had a radio store in the next town (one hour by
bicycle) but one of those transistors would have cost a fortune. There
was no Digikey.

The youth certainly has resources, more than ever before, but no
incentive. When I was 15 I built my own stereo amp and loudspeakers
because I wanted to have one, and commercial stuff was a lot more
expensive. Now a kid can buy a $10 PC speaker set that sounds about as
good as my amp back then.

A must-have must-build category of stuff were things that blink and
generate noise. Nowadays we have computers and other cheap gadgets that
do more noisy blinking than we can stand.

Another driving force behind hobby electronics was wireless
communication. I vividly remember my first home-built matchbox-sized FM
transmitter. What delight! The fact that operating it was kind of
illegal was icing on the cake. Now every kid has a damn cell phone with
which it can call every other kid in the industrialized part of the
globe within seconds.

Where's the fun in doung stuff yourself if you can just buy it better
and cheaper? I mean, it's still fun, but the main driving force for kids
is gone.

The first computer games we played we had to invent and code ourselves
because there were no games, at least not on the three $10000 computers
my school had in 1985.

Of course nowadays 2-year-olds have those ultra-cool wooden bicycles
which hadn't yet been invented back then.

robert
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