On 2 Mar 2018 23:01:17 GMT, Bob Eager wrote:

On Fri, 02 Mar 2018 21:10:52 +0000, Tim Streater wrote:

In article , mechanic
wrote:

On Fri, 2 Mar 2018 04:00:02 -0800 (PST), whisky-dave wrote:

Shouldn't this be part of a students education in your establishment?

That depends on the course the studetns are doing the above as
computer science studetns how spend their time typing on keyboards
they want to do computer science.

Computers aren't assembled using soldering irons.

Depends. I bought a single board computer with a 68000 CPU and
peripheral chips. I had to solder on some jumpers to change the memory
range, to enable some interrupts, and to allow software to set and use
the timer in the PIO chip.

Indeed. And I soldered together a couple of PDP-8 clones.

Very heart-warming I'm sure, but not much to do with the assembly of
computers in factories.