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

[Patrick Finnegan]

On Thursday 29 December 2005 14:09, William Donzelli wrote:
> > I guess they are so secret that they never made it to the surplus
> > market.!
>
> I would bet there are a few nuts with stuff like this in garages as
> well.
>
> But there is NO POINT in making new TTL.

Unless you wanted to make something strange/nonstandard, or which is 
hard to come by, like the 7480/82/83 full adder, one of the 748x RAM's, 
etc, and didn't want to use a PAL. :)

This is a hobbyist thing after all...

Of course, the real bitch about doing a fab in your garage, as opposed 
to most classic computing, is the really high temp furnaces, and the 
rather toxic chemicals you have to use.  I'd imagine that you could get 
in a lot of trouble with, eg, the EPA (or maybe even the DHS nowadays) 
if someone found out you were doing a fab at your house, in the US.

Pat
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