On 1/1/20 10:36 AM, William Donzelli wrote: > And then you weep and moan when another goes under... > > I am no longer marketing modern(ish) electronic components for retail > - there is no money there. All that stuff - 1000s of ICs and > capacitors and connectors are going out for metal recovery. Yes, it > hits home.
I don't weep and moan about something from the past vanishes because of lack of interest, any more than I weep about the unavailability of RTL flatpacks or variocouplers or UV201s. How much of a run do you imagine that 5V TTL logic will have? It's pretty much incompatible with tiny cell geometries. The inexorable march of human progress; you do what you can to tread water, but eventually it overtakes you and the old paradigms don't work any longer. It's probably for the better; we old fossils won't be around much longer anyway. I suspect that my late father would understand the Internet any more than my grandfather would have understood electronics or his father, internal combustion engines. --Chuck
