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

[Scott Gravenhorst]

Heh, yes, that's true - now.  I'm getting older, my eyes don't work that
great.  I can't do surface mount.  So I would need real 3 legged transistors,
but even those may be limited in production eventually.  And an OTA or an
OpAmp needs a bunch, many of them matched, imagine the size of an analog
modular with no ICs at all, and imagine the time it would take to build.  Not
nearly as convenient as what is available right now (and apparently, slowly,
but surely, one by one, vanishing).  

"Wood" <buck75 at easydatamusic.com> wrote:
>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
>> >***************************************************************
>> >http://www.oldcrows.net/~patchell
>> >
>> >***************************************************************
>> >
>> >
>>
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- Where merit is not rewarded, excellence fades.
- Hydrogen is pointless without solar.
- What good are laws that only lawyers understand?
- The media's credibility should always be questioned.
- The only good terrorist is a dead terrorist.
- Governments do nothing well, save collect taxes.

-- Scott Gravenhorst | LegoManiac / Lego Trains / RIS 1.5
-- Linux Rex         | RedWebMail by RedStarWare
-- FatMan: home1.gte.net/res0658s/FatMan/
-- NonFatMan: home1.gte.net/res0658s/electronics/
-- Autodidactic Master of Arcane and Hidden Knowledge.