Any *really* homebrewing going on?

From: CLASSICCMP_at_timaxp.trailing-edge.com <(CLASSICCMP_at_timaxp.trailing-edge.com)>
Date: Sat Oct 3 19:00:32 1998

>Homebrewing is still going on. Its just not as prevalent any more because
>each year the art dies a little more.

I think the tales of homebrewing's demise are being a bit exaggerated.
Certainly, the character of homebrewing has changed greatly over
the past 20 years. It is true that some of today's tools of the trade -
for example, a good PAL/GAL programmer - are
more expensive than many of tools of 1975. But in real dollars,
today's $800 device programmer is much cheaper than, say, an 8080A
CPU, which had a street price of US$250 or so in 1975.

And many folks are doing very interesting things with programmable
devices. You can get into PIC programming for well under $100, and
there's lots of really interesting things you can do with that.

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