[sdiy] Another new hard to find part....

[Scott Gravenhorst]

Apparently, we are the keepers of this vanishing technology.  (I remember the
book/movie "Fahrenheit 451")...  I, for one, will be "hoarding" a certain
selection of parts as soon as I find a job.  This feels like a bad dream
(nightmare).  

What I really hate about this is that mainstream electronics tends toward
digital microprocessor methods which don't seem to yet be able to do what
simple analogue circuits can do for music.  When analog is finally gone, will
the digital domain be able to satisfy our musical demands?  So far, it
doesn't look that great, IMHO.

James Patchell <patchell at cox.net> wrote:
>I just placed an order for parts for my sequencer....of all the things that 
>I did not think would be hard to get, a regular 74HC283 in a dip package is 
>no longer stocked by either Digikey or Mouser.  They are now special order 
>with them....even digital crap now is starting to be difficult to get....
>
>Also just realized I forgot to order CA3080's....well, I do have some 
>really old ones somewhere around here...
>
>
>         -Jim
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