Re: [ARSCLIST] Repairing (or purchasing) a Uher

[steven c <stevenc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Richard L. Hess" <arclists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> I wonder what it will be like in 20-30 years? We'll have to have a 
> personal machine shop!
> 
No...you'll have to have a personal microchip manufactory (should
such a thing exist!). Back in my youth, you went looking for
second-hand tubes (45's were scarce...X-99's like hens' teeth!)
because resistors and capacitors were still readily available.

Think of hand-fabricating a Pentium IV...with its several million
transistors!

And then think of the process of accessing the "This machine contains
no user-serviceable parts!" components! However, this isn't a new idea...
Atwater-Kent used to seal their power-supply components in about a
half-ton of asphalt, either on the assumption they would never need
replacement or else what you ACTUALLY needed was a new (Atwater-Kent)
receiving set!

The idea of actually FIXING something seems to have died two or
three decades ago...no wonder we're running out of landfill space!

Remember when drugstores and supermarkets all had tube testers,
and you took all the tubes out of your TV (hoping you'd remember
how to put them back in their sockets?) and "tested" them and
bought replacements for the ones where the needle didn't swing
into the green "Good" area of the meter?!

...stevenc
http://users.interlinks.net/stevenc/