[time-nuts] Maintaining boatanchors (was Capacitor Failures)

Magnus Danielson magnus at rubidium.dyndns.org
Sat Oct 23 15:25:27 UTC 2010


On 10/23/2010 05:04 PM, bownes wrote:
> If you are going to worry about things at that level, then it is not just the memory devices, you'll be worrying about all the programmable parts such as PALs, GALs, and other eplds. Then you are really looking fort some exotic programmers.

Who said I didn't worry about them? :)

If you want to go into paranoia mode, then there is all sorts of special 
ICs to worry about. Any programable stuff is relatively easy, but what 
if you don't have that peculiar gain-stage, low-jitter flip-flop or 
whatever. Then you have a piece of nice old gear that just turned into a 
doorstop. Until you find another and can make the transplant.

Caring about the gear so you don't kill the unobtainium components as 
secondary casualty should maybe come as natural.

Cheers,
Magnus



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