Pretty quiet around here lately

[James Damewood]

>
> 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.

I work for a big company and we depend on very old electronics (20+year
computer) for our
manufacturing system.  This computer does not even have a microprocessor but
discrete
logic gates for the CPU.   The electronic manufactures only follow the
desires of the market.


Jimbob