Re: [ARSCLIST] Memorex CDs

[David Lennick <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

steven c wrote:

> -
> > Returning to the "repairable" days would result in much higher cost,
> bigger,
> > less reliable devices having very limited capabilities. Which do we
> prefer?
> > I remember working in a radio repair shop in the 1950's where I identified
> > and replaced many faulty components, usually tubes and high voltage
> > electrolytic capacitors (vibrators and 0Z4 rectifiers in car radio power
> > supplies), and would not wish to return to those days.
> >
> Agreed...but I wonder if there might not be a better solution than
> building unserviceable devices, which wind up jamming our landfills!
> One thought...I have a c. 1970 Sony TV which has a number of replaceable
> plug-in modules (probably all long since out of production by now).
> If our devices were built this way...and if there was any standardization
> of modules like there was with tubes...things could be repaired rather
> than discarded...
>
> ...stevenc

Communist!

dl