[sdiy] Thanks Everyone! (say, any CA3094's out there?)

[Scott Gravenhorst]

cyborgzero at comcast.net wrote:
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "harry" <harrybissell at prodigy.net>
>To: "Cynthia Webster" <cynthia.webster at gte.net>
>Cc: <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
>Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2002 11:49 AM
>Subject: Re: [sdiy] Thanks Everyone! (say, any CA3094's out there?)
>
>
>> If you are comitted to the layout then your idea of a little header
>would work.
>> The CA3080 is available in SMT package and you COULD fit it on a dip
>header...
>
>Well, this might be the heart of it: you can still get a lot of parts,
>but *only* in smt, since thats what the industry uses more often, 

This is absolutely true.  Economics 101.  It is precisely why
the DIP is disappearing in preference for SMT.  SMT goes
together less expensively in a mass production environment.
Mass producers buy parts in the largest quantities, therefore,
mass producers set the paradigm by simple market forces.

>plus
>they charge you the same amount or more and use less resources.

First, I don't see how this matters, but more importantly,
I don't see how you can make this assumption.  Simply because
there's a little less plastic involved?  Do you have a copy
of their balance sheets to show this numerically?  I dare say 
that the plastic is one of the least expensive resource applied.
Don't you think that it's remotely possible that the equipment
used and personnel involved might really be more expensive?
Manufactures of anything do not set pricing using a special
"evil" calculator, where they plug in, say, "synth-diy" and 
the price doubles.  Rather, prices are set by real market
forces including such things as bulk run size, cost of raw
material, cost of marketing, cost of labor, cost of tooling,
cost of equipment and it's maintenance and how quickly the
parts disappear from inventory.  It's simple economics, not
psycho-evil intent.  They compete with each other.  The guy
selling his parts for the least per unit price wins the
business.  Always.  They do not get together at some big
evil-meanies meeting and set prices just to gouge you and I.

Practicalities.

And I don't like this any more than any of the rest of us,
but it is not useful to decry the industry as inherently
evil because they don't cater to our comparative ultra tiny 
fart in the wind-tunnel market.  What they do makes simple 
economic sense.

>Rob
>
>

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