[sdiy] Another new hard to find part....

[Wood]

isnt there the option of recreating these with discreate circuitry?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott Gravenhorst" <music.maker at gte.net>
To: <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Sunday, July 04, 2004 10:26 PM
Subject: Re: [sdiy] Another new hard to find part....


> Apparently, we are the keepers of this vanishing technology.  (I remember
the
> book/movie "Fahrenheit 451")...  I, for one, will be "hoarding" a certain
> selection of parts as soon as I find a job.  This feels like a bad dream
> (nightmare).
>
> What I really hate about this is that mainstream electronics tends toward
> digital microprocessor methods which don't seem to yet be able to do what
> simple analogue circuits can do for music.  When analog is finally gone,
will
> the digital domain be able to satisfy our musical demands?  So far, it
> doesn't look that great, IMHO.
>
> James Patchell <patchell at cox.net> wrote:
> >I just placed an order for parts for my sequencer....of all the things
that
> >I did not think would be hard to get, a regular 74HC283 in a dip package
is
> >no longer stocked by either Digikey or Mouser.  They are now special
order
> >with them....even digital crap now is starting to be difficult to get....
> >
> >Also just realized I forgot to order CA3080's....well, I do have some
> >really old ones somewhere around here...
> >
> >
> >         -Jim
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> >http://www.oldcrows.net/~patchell
> >
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> >
> >
>
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