ORIGINAL: Candre23
There were no spread-spectrum transmitters, brushless motors, or complicated ESCs that required programming.
actually there were. they just cost a lot more and were a little more complicated, that's why they weren'twidelyused. the technology has recently come far enough that it can be produced at a cost the masses can afford and its become user friendly enough that any idiot can use it.
ORIGINAL: Candre23
Availability was also a lot lower, pre-internet. Back then, your local hobby shop probably stocked a dozen or so models, and for your first car you probably just picked what you could afford from their limited selection
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; text-align: left; border-left: medium none; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; overflow: hidden; border-top: medium none; border-right: medium none; text-decoration: none">actually i researched it by looking through magazines. found what was in my price range and could handle the kind of driving i was going to be doing,then went to the hobby shop and bought the one they had in stockthat was wellsupported. and im sure a lot of the guys back then did the same. that really hasn't changed much over the years.
ORIGINAL: Candre23
I'm sure you learned a lot by staring at broken cars for hours, trying to figure out how to fix them before online resources were available. There's a lot to be said for doing it the hard way. But let me ask you this - If you had a community of several hundred experienced users to ask for help when you were starting out, would you have asked, or would you have just spent several hours being frustrated instead of actually running your car? Utilizing all the resources at your disposal isn't lazy, it's smart.
this is where your going to think im weird.<div style="border-bottom: medium none; text-align: left; border-left: medium none; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; overflow: hidden; border-top: medium none; border-right: medium none; text-decoration: none">i learned more troubleshooting and tinkering with a broken car than i could have ever learned on a forum. if i had a forum at my disposal back then would i have used it?yeah but i probably wouldn't have been asking many questions. that's just one of my character traits, i wont ask for help, but i wont hesitate to help someone else. some of the best and most gratifying moments in my RC history have been spent at a workbench with a car that wasn'tworking properly.
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