Re: gEDA-user: [pcb] "first board" docs

[Dave McGuire <mcguire@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

   Doh!  Do I get a hat for that? ;)

        -Dave

On Dec 5, 2007, at 1:17 PM, Dave N6NZ wrote:
> Congratulations!  You win the "humor challenged slow reader" award for
> today :)
>
> -dave
>
> Dave McGuire wrote:
>> On Dec 5, 2007, at 12:52 PM, Dave N6NZ wrote:
>>>> I've been pondering the "your first board" chapter of the getting
>>>> started guide.
>>> 555? People still use them? They cost as much as a whole
>>> microcontroller
>>> these days.....
>>
>>    All the time.  I used one in a commercial design two years ago.
>> They're still cheaper than microcontrollers...less than $0.25/ea in
>> single-unit quantities, going down to $0.10/ea in quantities of a few
>> hundred.
>>
>>    Further, the advantage of reduced complexity is pretty obvious.
>>
>>           -Dave
>>
>
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
Farewell Ophelia, 9/22/1991 - 7/25/2007





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