IC Sockets on Circuit Boards

[Harvey A. Kader]

That's very true - digital circuits can't exist without these
components, and these components require ultra sophisticated
construction techniques. Howvever, this does not rule out building
electronics in a somewhat low tech way for the hobbyist and
experimenter.

I will give you an example, by way of an analogy. In the field of
photography, which I am very well versed in having done it for the past
34 years, dgital photography is advancing very rapidly. In the not too
distant future film as we know it will be replaced in the mainstream by
digital imaging. This is both for environmental reasons, and practicle
reasons(digital imaging is instantaneous). But this won't some of us
from still using film, even if by then it is considered low tech. Film
will always be around, but in the future it may be more of a specialty
item. So the mainstream will take pictures by then digitally, and the
hobbyist and niche players wight use film.

But the use of film then does not mean that we can't take pictures. In
the same way, the use of lower tech electronic components does not mean
that we can't do electronics with them. After all before ICs, there was
electronics.

Harvey A. Kader - http://www.angelfire.com/on/vacuumtubes

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