Joerg said:
Come to think of it, we didn't even have Digikey. We had a 15 mile trip by
bicycle into town hoping the electronics surplus store there carried the
needed part or something that could be kludged in. And that it was somehow
affordable.
....because that's (almost) what everyone else had to do as well. These days I
think that part of the reason that analog design engineering is becoming a
lost art is that, compared to the advances in performing digital design (where
you can literally build your own CPU in Verilog in VHDL in a day), analog
design is still relatively slow.
Joerg, I think you'd be a good candidate to write a book as well! (I want to
believe that with todays cheap processors and high speed logic, with creative
analog design one should be able to build stuff like "do it at home"
ultrasound machines to sell to expectant mothers or something for, I dunno,
$149... and I figure you're the guy to be able to pull off the analog part of
the design on the cheap.
)
---Joel
