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It's a common feeling to think the people that came before you were somehow less smart and talented. When my now grown kids were younger, I pulled the back off
by Damogran6 2y ago
It's a common feeling to think the people that came before you were somehow less smart and talented.
When my now grown kids were younger, I pulled the back off a cassette tape player. The belts and gears and cams and the like were completely alien to them...they'd grown up on slabs of glass.
The miniaturization to get analog stuff to drag tape across a tape head was legendary.
- garciansmith 2y agoI'm old enough to have grown up with all that, but I was always amazed by all that analog tech, still am. I know people marvel at the black slabs we carry around, but to me that's just a smaller computer and not particularly "magic." Versus something like an SLR camera or a mechanical watch? Those are just mind boggling to me.
- Damogran6 2y agoI'm fully straddling both. I loved successfully recapping a Macintosh SE and restoring a Lathe from 1964. I was mentally counting the execution threads in the processors in the house, got up into the upper 50's and chuckled going from 54 to 55 when including the 68000 in the Mac.