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RE: [vintagesynthrepair] obsolete component part sourcing

2008-05-20 by Scott Nordlund

> You want to look for surplus part vendors. The one I've used in the
> past, Great Plains Electronics, has many obsolete memory parts, most
> older than the one you're searching, but had none of the parts you were
> looking for.
>
> http://www.greatplainselectronics.com/default.asp

Right, the problem is finding surplus vendors that actually have the part and will sell it in quantities of less than 1000. The particular chips I'm looking for were introduced in the late 90's and subsequently seem to have disappeared into a black hole.

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