Model Railroad Hobbyist | March 2016 | #73 DCC IMPULSES column Bruce Petrarca Is DCC Dead? No, this is not going to be a doom and gloom nightmare. I’m just going to push some paradigms a bit. It is very easy to ignore things that are out of your mainstream of thought. For example, 1. Circa 1975 Texas Instrument digital watch. Texas Instruments almost bankrupted Timex in the 1970s. TI came out with a LED watch [1] and Timex ignored it because it didn’t have wheels and hands and was from an electronics company. The digital watch caught on and Timex was struggling to compete for a few years. XX DCC TIPS, TRICKS, AND TECHNIQUES • INDEX • TABLE OF CONTENTS