[Boatanchors] New official acronym

[Bob Macklin]

I recently found that a lot of the STANDARD IC's of 20 years ago are now
getting hard to find. I am speaking about DIP components. Many are available
is surface mount packages but no longer in DIP packages. This makes building
a breadboard kluge a PITA!

Bob Macklin
K5MYJ
Seattle, Wa,
"Real Radios Glow in the Dark"
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ed Berbari" <eberbari at indy.rr.com>
To: <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, April 07, 2008 4:09 PM
Subject: [Boatanchors] New official acronym


> One reason we all love our boatanchors is that we can get inside them, fix
> them, modify them, and give them the love that they need.  Parts are not
yet
> a major problem.
>
> I just read an article in the latest issue of the IEEE Spectrum Magazine.
> Seems that all of the modern stuff is causing great problems for the
> military since they must keep warehouses full of no longer made
components.
> Part of the problem is that the military now uses a lot of commercial
stuff
> which leaves the market place fairly quickly.  The new acronym is DMSMS:
> Diminishing manufacturing sources and material shortages.
>
> Obviously not a problem for us!
>
> Ed, W9EJB
>
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