The future of our hobby (was Re: ImageDisk project is canceled)

[Jos Dreesen]

Am donderdag, 29.12.05, um 13:50 Uhr (Europe/Zurich) schrieb Tony Duell:

>> This list will not convince Tony otherwise, I also tried ...
>
> What bothers me is whu you want to convince me otherwise.

Me, and the others probably also, are basically only pointing out that 
there is a place for modern, non-hobbyist friendly technology too.
There will never be a hacker-friendly mobile phone for instance. 
Component level repair on those is impossible, even though I have the 
full schematics on mine.... Does that mean all mobile phones are bad 
and not worth having ?

In the same line of thought, there is a place for a non-hacker friendly 
modern PC, I do use mine as storage for all the PDF's releated to my 
Classiccmp gear and my digital photos. Zippy response is nice to have 
for these usage cases.

Also economics are important : my (limited) skills in (modern 
non-hacker technology) GSM IC design enable me a comfortable living, my 
skills in desiging TTL CPU's or repairing PDP8's are basically 
worthless, even though I find them more interesting.

It is a case of using the right tools for the job : old machines when 
you want to hack ,modern machine for productive use.
								
											Regards,												 Jos