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Re: [motm] No DIPs

2001-03-09 by The Old Crow

On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Paul Schreiber wrote:

> There is such a huge installed base of thru-hole parts that it will be
> slow and gradual, but like the VESA slot, ISA slot and the 540MB hard
> drive in PCs, going...going...gone!!

  Don't worry just yet.  Military contracts to maintain stuff through like
year 2035 will assure us of a lot of DIP parts for years to come.

Crow

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