Re: Computing Editorial (please read)

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <3E39C521.45962071@ev1.net>,
Charles Richmond  <richmond@ev1.net> wrote:
 
> I have thought about this sort of thing. My take is:  Things eventually
> get so easy that they are *not* worth doing anymore. Having a radio
> receiver used to be like that. At first, you had to buy batteries and
> connect this large monstrosity with tubes to a headphone to listen to
> the broadcasts.
 
Nah -- at first you didn't need any batteries at all, because the
crystal receivers ran directly on RF energy!!!!
 
> Then speakers and smaller radio receivers were made.
> Eventually, radios became a commodity item. Then the transistor and
> IC came along...now radios are so cheap and easy to use...that most
> people have moved on to something else. Radios are *no* longer interesting.
> (Notice, I am talking about regular radio receivers...*not* the ham
> broadcast rigs.)
 
A similar evolution is happening within the ham radio community:
the number of hams are declining, and among those who remain, fewer
are building their own rigs.
 
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