Oh, the frustration of realising that the old eyes can't focus properly at soldering distance.
I agree - it's all the wrong way around. When I was a mere youth with brilliant eyesight, resistors were the thickness of a pencil and capacitors were so large that the values were in a 10 point font. ( Heck I even used a plumber's soldering iron heated by blowtorch to build my first one valve receiver - and no! - I knew not to use HCl as the flux by then
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Now at the other end of the adventure, everything is ultra tiny, ICs have a miniscule type code on them in dark grey lettering on a light black surface, and diodes almost need a forensic microscope to establish who and what they are.
And don't even mention surface mount components at my age
