I gotta admit my first thought while watching this was older CPUs, always had an affinity for the Motorola 68k family (see if you can guess my first computer).
But I also wonder how much we would be using those CPUs to provide control planes and interfaces for Industrial gear running 8051 variants. I imagine that a lot of those microcontrollers, which are already in use across a frightening amount of Industrial equipment will likely have enormously longer operational lifespans than the computers used to program them. Plus a cursory search shows I can buy hundreds of thousands of them without resorting to scavenging and repurposing.
Plus when suddenly everything in a DIL DIP package is seen as desirable again my soldering skills will only be seen as deficient not a heinous abomination.
I gotta admit my first thought while watching this was older CPUs, always had an affinity for the Motorola 68k family (see if you can guess my first computer).
But I also wonder how much we would be using those CPUs to provide control planes and interfaces for Industrial gear running 8051 variants. I imagine that a lot of those microcontrollers, which are already in use across a frightening amount of Industrial equipment will likely have enormously longer operational lifespans than the computers used to program them. Plus a cursory search shows I can buy hundreds of thousands of them without resorting to scavenging and repurposing.
Plus when suddenly everything in a DIL DIP package is seen as desirable again my soldering skills will only be seen as deficient not a heinous abomination.