24 Dec
2013
24 Dec
'13
9:29 a.m.
On 12/23/2013 2:38 PM, jim s wrote:
On 12/23/2013 11:18 AM, Al Kossow wrote:
Does this type of IC (NMOS, TTL, etc) degrade with time during storage?
(assuming reasonable environmental conditions)
s2
On 12/23/13 11:03 AM, ben wrote:
One of my buddies who is probably one of the top schlockers
won't
store these parts anymore, and calls them 1 mil parts, for what he can
get for them.
the people who carry these have either very very cheap storage, or
some business model which covers the costs of covering the storage of
the parts from another part of the business they run.
Cindy, who posts here is an example of a slower motion model of what
will happen or is happening to the people who stock the nos parts.
The book business had a heavy one time contraction when accounting
rules caused a purge on 'remaindered' books and a lot of old stock
went away. I don't know if that is an issue for the people who have
all the treasures we covet, but some should be carrying the inventory
value on their books, and if they are doing that they are paying taxes
on it. Another reason treasures go away.
thanks
jim
Have microcomputers really died off?
As far as semiconductor manufacturers are concerned, yes.
NMOS, +5v logic, and TTL is dead, dead, dead.
The people tinkering with 8 bit micros are using NOS parts
which will all dry up in our lifetimes. I use NOS Harris
6120s as an exampe