[Re: Obsolescence of groovy synth parts ]

[Quinton Fulsom]

The way things are progressing and what I see in the next 10 years alone who
is to say electronics will even exist at that point in the greater proportion.
 50 years from now I hardly think production will cease to exist.  My basis is
that everything is becoming more static or organically driven relying on
software dynamics.

I think the most important thing to realise is our "little arena" is dependant
upon two factors, goverment research & the computer industry.
Do realise once Mr. Bush goes back into office it will be full throttle on R&D
for the military spending.  In fact I've been seeing it already here and
there.

Just my speculation however.







Rick Jansen <rick at bpa.nl> wrote:

In message <3793B42E.83D93298 at wanadoo.fr> writes:
> > I'm not sure what the lesson is here. 

I think the lesson here is: don't use specific application ic's!

SSM and CEM and uA726 are nice of course, but once production 
ceases you're stuck. If you're designing something that you want
build again in 20 years you'll have to use parts that are generic.
Opamps and OTA's will be around, and probably transistor *arrays*.

What is there you REALLY cannot build with those?

I've always been amazed the industry has produced thousands
of different types of (discrete) transistors and fets, with
complete telephone directories as replacement guides. You can
probably do with a 100 or so different types in total...

Rick Jansen
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