The future of our hobby (was Re: ImageDisk project is canceled)

[woodelf]

William Donzelli wrote:

>>At operating costs of 600 USD / hour a FIB machine is probably not for 
>>the avarage hobbyist.
>>And we wont go into space issues and the rather nasty chemicals that 
>>are used in the FIB or in opening up plastic packages.
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>But of course, in a few years some nut is going to have one
>operating in his garage for a lot less!
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So where are a the chip fab components that made good old TTL?
I guess they are so secret that they never made it to the surplus market.!

>William Donzelli
>aw288 at osfn.org
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PS Anybody have a list of NEEDED IC's re-manufactured for old computers?