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- From: joro@panix.com (Joe Rosen)
- Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk.tech
- Subject: Re: Mercury switch sensors
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.184051.21746@panix.com>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 18:40:51 GMT
- References: <13DEC199210564678@scsuc.ctstateu.edu> <1992Dec16.055954.5917@panix.com> <1992Dec22.191609.1@acad3.alaska.edu>
- Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC
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- >What is wrong with 'garage level hack' if people wanted nice packaging Tom
- >Edison woul dof never gotten noticed..
- >I like your idea of mercury switches..
- >Ghost Wheel/Morgoth NSMCA@acad3.alaska.edu
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- ... i have attempted to develop a whole philosophy and technique
- behind using low-tech solutions to high-tech problems...
-
- this is not so much an access issue (as i have had the good fortune to
- work in environments where resources have been available to me) but more
- of a philosophical protest against the notion that sez big budgets are
- required if anything is to be accomplished in makin' computer and
- electronic ideas and inventions into real working "objects"...
-
- ... sometimes i end up re-inventing stuff, makin' my task more
- difficult than maybe it has to be (i.e. more difficult than if i used
- more "ready-made" resources in the projects i build)...
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- but...
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- ... in the end -- each project i complete is unique. the software
- code and electronic circuits all carrying with them a piece of my own
- personal identity.
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