Re: gEDA-user: Outsourcing PCB layout

[Gabriel Paubert <paubert@xxxxxxx>]

On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 05:02:25PM +0000, Michael Sokolov wrote:
> John Griessen <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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is obsolete.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


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