[sdiy] reissue parts

[Scott Gravenhorst]

I admire and respect your hopeful nature, but that's just not realistic. 
It is, after all, about profit, staying in business, and nothing else.  The
industry, even for music electronics, has moved beyond analog and into
digital, (and I don't wish to debate the merits of either).  We are the
few, the brave, the proud, and all we can do is make lifetime purchases of
those beloved components that have been flagged as obsolete.

The tooling required to mass produce integrated circuits is expensive. 
It's a cost.  Unless LARGE quantities of a device can be manufactured for a
reasonably long period of time, there just is no incentive to do so, no
matter how wonderful we on this list may think they are.  They pay for the
equipment, the floorspace, the people, the electricity, and the raw
material.  Without a positive return on that investment, it just won't
happen.  Not only that, but the positive return has to be at a level that
is comparable to other parts they currently make.  Without that, they are
incented to strip down and retool for a part that does sell well, such as
digital components for computers, cellphones and the like.

But then, this is really a "been there, done that" discussion.

I agree with you that it would be nice to have CA3080 available forever,
but that just isn't reality.  Cellphone crap is, so my advice to you is to
find what you need and buy it TODAY, as much as you can afford or at least
as much as you believe you will ever need in your lifetime.

Nuff said by me.

"anthony" <aankrom at bluemarble.net> wrote:
>It's possible that a lot of these parts that are going out of production 
>were
>just before their times and if there's enough interest in them, they might
>get remanufactured. It happened with Panasonic's MN3XXX BBD's.
>(Well not all of them - like not the MN3006 - nice short delay.
>Good thing I have 3.) Of course the prices migth end up being silly.
>An analog delay using MN3XXX's can cost well over $1000,
>(At least one anyway.) 
>
>

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