[Elecraft] smaller caps?

[N2EY at aol.com]

In a message dated 9/19/07 8:12:18 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
k4vud at hotmail.com writes:


> What is the motivation driving smaller and smaller electronic 
> products?
> 
> smaller means using less stuff to make it and thus cheaper?

Yep. Also less cost to pack, to ship, and to store. 

Look at the cost of packing, shipping, and storing, say, a DX-100 and K2/100. 
That all comes out in the price.
> 
> But when the hand phone, the caculator, the iPod, the mp3 player, the memory 
> 
> stick, the 706, etc etc are so small that they can not be easily be operated 
> 
> with normal human fingers, what is going on?

Depends what you mean by "normal". And people buy the things.

> One of my students had her computer "thumb" memory thingy hanging from her 
> ear lobe.
> 

I remember carrying punched card decks, reels of computer tape (magnetic and 
paper) and those multiplatter removable disks that went into drives the size 
of a washing machine. No thanks.
> 
> The greying of America and of ham radio indicates the need for bigger type, 
> bigger radio buttons, etc., AND louder cel phones and louder everything, 
> too.
> 

How much more are you willing to pay for it?

73 de Jim, N2EY


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