[Amps] New FET's

[Pete Smith]

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 at ezwv.com>
>>To: "Amps at contesting.com" <Amps at 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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