[AT] 1970's farm equipment

[Phil Auten]

I usually need to write stuff like that down, and I am/was a computer/IT 
tech. Now, where'd I put my pencil?

I've been out of the computer biz,except for fixing my own, since 2011 
and I am amazed how much it has changed since then. I have two working 
computers, both laptops. The one I am on now is the newest and it is 
running Vista (yuck). The other one is about a 2006 model and runs XP. 
That one I need to redo and load Linux so it will keep up.

Phil in TX


On 10/20/2019 11:39 PM, deanvp at att.net wrote:
> James,
>
>   Every time I go shopping at the local Costco I marvel at how many
> foreigners we have here in WA  I'm sure driven by the High Tech industries
> like Microsoft and Amazon. It used to be the Oriental's that were
> predominate. Now it seems to be East Indians. I'm sure much of our technical
> knowledge is eventually ending up back in India.  However, that doesn't seem
> to apply to those who work in the technical support groups we call for help.
> I have completely given up on calling any kind of help line for anything.
> First because they really don't know very much and secondly their accent
> combined with my loss of hearing makes understanding them almost impossible.
> I will work Google search until I find the answer I'm looking for. I just
> went through that recently.  Some time in the past I changed from double
> click to single click file opening on my mouse. Long enough ago I had
> forgotten how I did it.  For me the obvious place to look was on the setup
> of the mouse. Wrong.  I put up with the change far too long and finally I
> had enough.  But couldn't remember how to fix it. Google came to the rescue.
> In Win 10. one has to get into File Explorer, view, options, change options
> to get to that setting.  How in the hell I found that the first time is
> beyond me  But all is now cool again.   Simple but frustrating.
>
> Dean VP
> Snohomish, WA 98290
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: AT <at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com> On Behalf Of James Peck
> Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2019 11:18 AM
> To: Antique Tractor Email Discussion Group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Subject: Re: [AT] 1970's farm equipment
>
> I worked for a GM division a little in the late sixties. The focus then was
> on making all components so they ended their life at 10 years.  The items
> that lasted longer were made too well.
>
> [Henry Miller] The 1970s when efficiency experts ruled every thing with the
> bean counters. Cut cost and quality were number one. The auto world had it
> worse than most because they suddenly had to meet emissions rules that they
> didn't really know how to do and so rube Goldberg contraptions were designed
> to that standard with predictable results.
>
> Modern just in time is often very inefficient, but the cost savings
> elsewhere make it vastly more cost effective. Consumers have also caught on
> to the idea that quality is sometimes worth paying for. Where the above
> doesn't apply is a race to the bottom that we can't win. China, like Taiwan
> and Japan before them is starting to drop out of the game. Africa is
> probably next in my opinion: Vietnam and Pakistan play a bit but they are
> not large enough and to beat China and they are not far behind China into
> getting out of that hole. India could win for a while, but they have a lot
> of smart people who know how to make quality (training on the job in the US
> or Europe) and would rather skip the cheap junk period.
>
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