[Uram-rejections] When did we lose touch with reality?

Fri Sep 20 15:42:35 BST 2019

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> Subject: Re: When did we lose touch with reality?
> Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2019 07:03:16 +0000 (UTC)
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> Gareth's was W7 now W10 Downstairs Computer <headstone255 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Up till about 1975, we radio hams were au fait with
> > all the electronic components of the world, and the
> > components in commercial applications, plod or army,
> > were pretty much the same as in our own gear.
> > 
> > We could obtain anything we needed from, say, RadioSpares.
> > 
> > Today, miniaturisation and integration have reached
> > such a stage that we are unlikely to understand
> > the chips fitted into our rigs even were we able to
> > get detailed info on them outside of an NDA agreement
> > (Yes, I know, the same mistake as AC current  :-)  )
> > and are extremely unlikely to find a supplier for
> > replacements.
> > 
> > When, then, did we lose touch with reality?
> > 
> > 
> 
> Many amateurs haven’t. 
> 
> Some have either kept their knowledge up to date by personal study or by
> working in industries which use the same or similar technologies.
> 
> It is only those who have tried to remain in the past, without accepting
> technology has moved on, which have failed to keep abreast of modern
> developments etc. 
> 
> You see the same in the work place, particularly in software development.
> At one time anyone who could throw a few lines of assembler together could
> pass themselves off as a software engineer. However, faced with the demands
> of a complex project, with safety implications etc,  demanding proper,
> formal design techniques and so on, they would be out of their depth.  That
> was one reason Frank G3VKI was never out of work. He worked in an area
> which demanded high standards and he kept himself current, fixing problems.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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