23 Dec
2013
23 Dec
'13
5:38 p.m.
On 12/23/2013 11:18 AM, Al Kossow wrote:
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