On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 05:02:25PM +0000, Michael Sokolov wrote: > John Griessen <j...@ecosensory.com> wrote: > > > but then, the international reach of the internet along with closed borders > > and regulated trade may put me out, way out :-) > > You mean Ineiev's offer being 15-40 times cheaper than what you and > everyone else has offered? Yeah, that pretty much guarantees that I'll > go with him. :-) > > Yes, I know the saying that you get what you pay for. But this is a > *hobby* project on which I don't expect to make any money ever. I have > mentioned the possibility of one ISP wanting me to make 100 of those > units, but after I had made that post I have rechecked the availability > of all the parts on my BOM and confirmed what I had feared: the RS8973 > SDSL transceiver chip, the one that the whole design revolves around, is > no longer available by any means other than buying other old SDSL > routers on eBay and desoldering that chip. I have 10 such sacrificial > routers in my stash which have been acquired for that specific purpose. > There is one other chip in my design which I would like to keep in there > for sentimental reasons (TI SN75LBC784 EIA-423 transceiver), and it has > also apparently become unobtainium. I have 25 of those on hand.
Indeed, while some distributors apparently still have a non-negligible stock of Conexant's RS8973 (www.americaii.com claims 1943), the transceiver is obsolete. Gabriel _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user