[sdiy] SSM2040

[Thomas Hudson]

So here is what I am going to do. To insure these chips actually  
work, I will socket them in some old circuits I'd love to try. At  
that point I can sell them in confidence that they actually work.

Then, I will either sell them to someone fixing an old synth, or buy  
one of those old synths that needs one. In the mean time, anyone who  
has contacted me should buy from the previously mentioned site. They  
have sixteen at about $65USD.

The only new synth that floats my boat is the Dave Smith Evolver, so  
maybe I will wait until these two chips rise in value to equal the  
purchase price for a used one of those.


On Oct 31, 2007, at 4:51 PM, JH. wrote:

>>>> They are yours. You should enjoy them however you see fit.
>>>
>>> Absolutely. But [...]
>>
>> The argument that chip owners have any responsibility to polysynth
>> owners cannot be made on a purely pragmatic basis. It is an
>> ideological argument and a shallow one at best.
>
> Just wanted to point out that I don't have any ideological  
> argument, just a
> purely pragmatic one.
> If these SSM2040's aren't worth 100 Dollars today, they *will* be in a
> couple of years.
> And maybe twice as much after some more years.
> Which, maybe, also means that at some time it will even be  
> economical to
> create discrete replacements
> (in a kind of SMD that's proably even smaller than today's SMDs) for
> *polysynths*.
>
> JH. (who is guilty of claiming all of the world's remaining  
> TDA1022s chips,
> apparently, right now. :) )
>
>
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