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- From: nsmca@acad3.alaska.edu
- Subject: Low Tech Solutions
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.010506.1@acad3.alaska.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 09:05:06 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec23.184051.21746@panix.com>, joro@panix.com (Joe Rosen) writes:
- >>>
- >>>
- >>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
- >
- >
- > ... 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)...
- >
- > but...
- >
- > ... 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.
-
- That is good, low tech ways of doing things that some think need high tech.. We
- rely to much on high-tech, generally translates to high-costs, high-pollution,
- and maybe high-profits for someone..
-
- Why is it when a computer company (such as MSDOS) does something new, they go
- for bigger and meaning slower, so therefore you have to buy a new faster
- machine. Why not better use the machines we have? Why must DOS be replaced
- (well it was a real temp fix when it came out)? Mayeb it is time for grassroot
- organizations to make the changes, choices and such and not be led around by
- the large companies (MSDOS/Apple (MAC)/IBM/HAYES) and such..
- Maybe Im being a little bit naive..
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-
- Michael Adams
- Alias: Morgoth/Ghost Wheel
- nsmca@acad3.alaska.edu
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