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Subject: Retooling

From: "Paul Schreiber" <synth1@...>
Date: 2000-02-13

>
> Has there been any interest in a collective "gathering" of funds to
finance
> the re-tooling costs, it would be interesting to see if enough people
would
> be up for it.
>
> Apart from selling them to D∗ for loads, the interest in Analogue seems to
> be snowballing which could make the collective some profit maybe to fund
> more!. (sorry about the Collective bit, too much 7 of 9 (Borg))

Actually, not having these in wide distribution is a competive advantage for
me.

But, the main issue is that the chips are designed on a IC process no longer
available,
and EVERY chip must be retooled for modern IC design rules. That's $48K ∗per
chip∗.

AND...I have 4,203 CEM3340 VCO chips. AND being Mr Nice Guy sold 175 to
Doepfer.

>
> On a MOTM note, I have just got one of the 320's finished. That LED is
> great. Could one be used in the VCEG to change colour with EG's progress?

Yes, but that's sort of a power hog.

Paul S.