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Article #9560Re: HeathKit Catalogue
From: Marvin Minsky
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 1991 15:15
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 1991 15:15
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In article <1991Jan17.051057.22484@athena.cs.uga.edu> mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu (Michael A. Covington) writes: >Well said, about Heath. It was a nice era in its own way, but >technological progress has made kits obsolete. Thankfully, electronic >equipment no longer requires painstaking assembly by hand >(so you can't save any money by offering to do this yourself). Right on. The equipment is better, but my impression is that the entering engineering students have fewer skills than they used to. (On the other side, I read an article by some historian who asserted that throughout recorded history, senior professors have always complained that their new students are worse than they were in the good old days.)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!mit-eddie!media-lab!minsky From: minsky@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Marvin Minsky) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: HeathKit Catalogue Message-ID: <4911@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> Date: 17 Jan 91 15:15:18 GMT References: <37.2790F66B@egsgate.fidonet.org> <889@wells.UUCP> <894@wells.UUCP> <1991Jan17.051057.22484@athena.cs.uga.edu> Reply-To: minsky@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Marvin Minsky) Organization: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge MA Lines: 13