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Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Soldering 16-pin LFCSP?

2005-02-01 by Stefan Trethan

On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 12:27:03 -0500, Roy J. Tellason  
<rtellason@...> wrote:

>
>
> I remember well reading an article in Popular Electronics,  back in the  
> 1960s
> some time,  where the point was made that with the trend in  
> "miniaturization"
> that was started even back then,  the ultimate limit wasn't going to be  
> in
> the circuitry,  but rather in the bits that the operator had to interact
> with-- the controls and such.
> And while those have gotten smaller than they used to be as well,  there  
> is a
> limit!
> Bigger knobs and switches are easier to operate anyway!
>


Hehe...
A teacher of mine used to say they will soon have to transplant the ear  
closer to the mouth, looking at the mobile phones. Well, he was wrong,  
they simply used a much bigger airgap between mouth and phone.
I have more than once heared people complain about the size of knobs on  
phones, remote controls, etc.....
especially when they get older..


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