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ene thing I liked about acetate & crepe was that tracks could be narrowed wh ere they had to squeeze through narrow spaces, and pads trimmed down to acc ommodate. Of course narrow meant enormous by today's standards.
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Software still has images of floppies for 'save'.
chip, even at the hobby scale. Silicon because it's so cheap & abundant. I doubt anything will fail to have embedded electronics.
The case will be moulded around the chip, or perhaps the chip's epoxy packa ge will also be the case. External connectors will spot weld direct to the chip pads. Or maybe connectors will be within the chip's epoxy.
PCBs make zero sense in 100 years. A single chip can contain all the electr onics, everything else can at worst connect direct to it. PCBs are just an artifact of our inability to put the whole lot in 1 chip.
The idea that small scale production will remove the option to do custom ch ips also makes no sense in 100 years. Building electronics will be just lik e sending gerber files to china, and you get your product in the post. Ther e will be no reason to do things our primitive way with discretes.
Bill missed all this of course.
thing. Lots of QIL chips got their legs pliered to fit DIL sockets later.
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one had to get someone else to type something seems absurd.
It's insane, beyond stupid. Yet that's how the world is run.
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