exxos wrote: ↑Fri Aug 17, 2018 2:38 pm
The term "electronics engineer" these last years seems to be "board swappers" . Some people think they are electronics engineers just swapping PCI cards about in PCs
I noticed that, I think because its cheaper to just swap bits and hope they work together or at all. I used to do all that board level stuff checking caps, voltages, PSUs, temperatures, bad solder joints etc. no one was willing to pay for that with a PC, when a new motherboard was £30... now a ST/Amiga/Sega/SNES/CPC whatever you just cant get so you stuck. So now we have a generation of parts swappers on the lose.
Same with cars just swap what the computer says, no one takes the computer as a guide its normally wrong anyhow

or they don't realise its something else that caused the fault like a broke bit of pipe.
exxos wrote: ↑Fri Aug 17, 2018 2:38 pm
mix in 100's of emails each day and my whole days is gone.
Ok, ok I'll cut down
exxos wrote: ↑Fri Aug 17, 2018 1:53 pm
There must be more than me in the world who can repair and upgrade machines ?
Machines are arriving twice as fast as I have time to repair them. I get stuff sent to me from all corners of the world.
It's more amazing people are actually bothered and there's that many actual users/machines left and people willing to spend on them, maybe the people spending on them are all the people who had these things as kids but now they have money and can go wild, nostalgia is a powerful thing
