Pretty quiet around here lately

[Tony Allgood]

>I just know that the reason it's been so quiet around here lately is
that everyone is in the lab cooking up new commercial products.

This could be true indeed. There seems to be a market for DIYers out
there, and its difficult to say how big it actually is.

I'd like to build some ready built units, but European EMC and CE
approval laws are really such a pain. I can't afford to do that. Little
companies spring up and then dissappear quite readily here in the UK.
Alex Winter's Moog UK has gone now... I wonder what he's done with all
his uA726 clones? What happened to Orgon too?

But my worry is that as the years go on, more and more useful parts are
going into SMD only which will stifle us little guys. Even my favourite
OTA, the BA6110, is not being made any more in SIL format, present
stocks are high enough for me at the moment. However, I don't want to be
designing discrete OTAs and trying to match SMD transistors by hand in
five years time. I just bought the last of Maplin's 2210s. They had two
left.

And even the mighty Farnell, who now own CPC it seems, have run out of
Switchcraft sockets! Bah, a conspiracy I tell you.

BTW on a completely different note: There's a Vemia auction going on
now.

www.vemia.co.uk/

Just check out the ARP modular for 6500UKP. Ouch!!!

Regards,

Tony Allgood  Penrith, Cumbria, UK

Modular synth circuits, TB303 clone and Filter Rack

http://www.techrepairs.freeserve.co.uk/projects.htm