Hello all,
I was playing around in LTspice and doing some programming for a couple of hobby projects tonight and had a moment. I realized how easy it is to google the answer to most common problems, especially when it comes to programming. It made me think a bit...how common was this in the pre-internet days? Back in the 70s and 80s did EEs pull out books of reference designs to get started on a circuit? Did programmers, especially assembly people, carry around books full of that particular processor's instruction set? Or...am I underestimating how much more engineering relied on memory and math a few decades ago?
I was playing around in LTspice and doing some programming for a couple of hobby projects tonight and had a moment. I realized how easy it is to google the answer to most common problems, especially when it comes to programming. It made me think a bit...how common was this in the pre-internet days? Back in the 70s and 80s did EEs pull out books of reference designs to get started on a circuit? Did programmers, especially assembly people, carry around books full of that particular processor's instruction set? Or...am I underestimating how much more engineering relied on memory and math a few decades ago?