I lived my life on the other end of that product cycle and I see what
engineers can't do.
If they weren't wrong so often I would not have had a job.
I didn't lose my job because they got any better. It was just because
we simply throw away their mistakes and buy a new one instead of
trying to fix it.
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I think you'd have to concede that the electronics of today are orders
of magnitude more reliable than 50 or 60 years ago. Even more
importantly, the complex electromechanical devices that IBM was famous
for, have mostly been phased out.
Very true and one of the reasons in hindsight that I am grateful that I
never tried to pursue a career in engineering using discrete components
and devices. The basic electronic engineering education I received led
to another, more physics related field that I enjoyed very much.
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