A dozen or more years ago, I was involved in a project to fly a space
science instrument on a Soviet spacecraft (my part in the project was
diplomatic, not technical). It used a solid-state memory unit that was
built around specially-selected garden-variety CMOS memory components whose
mass-market counterparts could, in fact, be bought at Radio Shack. The DOD
technology people went nuts over the idea of giving the Soviets access to
US "rad-hard" components, because the CMOS apparently had some fairly
impressive inherent rad hardness . It didn't bother them that if the Sovs
wanted something to re-engineer, they could buy them off the pegboard at
the Shack.
At 12:48 AM 2/10/2005, S. J. Blackwell wrote:
Will,
If you were upside down at 45,000 ft doing Mach 1.2 in an F-16 getting
ready to split-S with a SAM on your tail or in a vacuum in outer space,
would you rather have a $0.29 cent 2N2222 in your proximity warning system
or in your O2 - pressure monitoring equipment? I think I would go for
something that did not come from Rat Shack. That is one of the things that
we have that makes people willing to place themselves in that position.
Thank goodness we have them and non Rat Shack components for them.
Nuf said
Sam Blackwell, W5LU
From: "Will Matney" <craxd1@ezwv.com>
To: "Amps@contesting.com" <Amps@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [Amps] New FET's
Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 23:38:30 -0500
LOL, I wonder if they x-ray the toilet seat for a crack, or the other way
around, x-ray the crack which will set on the seat? Also, I
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