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It's surprising the DoD didn't require stockpiles of spares for every electronic component in these phenomenally expensive and long-lived weapon systems. This is after all the one arm of the Federal Government that is both good at logistics and planning, and was able to deliver frozen ice cream and other amenities to the most remote Forward Operating Bases in Afghanistan.
> "[Phoenix] repackages off-the-shelf semiconductors into devices that are virtually identical to the phased-out chips." I'm slightly surprised that _virtually_ identical chips are allowed. I expected truly identical chips to be required…
This makes me think of Jazz Semiconductor in Newport Beach. I think they’re Tower Semiconductor now, but I believe they’re still there, a small fab in SoCal that I assume is making obscure, important stuff.
Turtles all the way down and up: Vehicle makers sourcing plug-compatible devices which emulate floppy drives for updating tank s/w, Airlines sourcing print and terminals emulating IBM mainframe era dependencies for gate check processes. Talking of mainframes, many core bank registry functions are emulations of prior systems long embedded into architectures now themselves superseded. Support for tech archaisms has lon…
There's also like one company still manufacturing CRTs, and their market is exclusively military and heavy-industrial, replacements for old fighter-jet HUDs and the like: https://www.thomaselectronics.com/avionics/head-up-display/ I'm sure there's at least one wealthy Smash Bros. enthusiast willing to pay their asking price and hook up one of their HUDs to a Gamecube to play Melee though.
It's surprising the DoD didn't require stockpiles of spares for every electronic component in these phenomenally expensive and long-lived weapon systems. This is after all the one arm of the Federal Government that is both good at logistics and planning, and was able to deliver frozen ice cream and other amenities to the most remote Forward Operating Bases in Afghanistan.
It's surprising the DoD didn't require stockpiles of spares for every electronic component in these phenomenally expensive and long-lived weapon systems. This is after all the one arm of the Federal Government that is both good at logistics and planning, and was able to deliver frozen ice cream and other amenities to the most remote Forward Operating Bases in Afghanistan.
Man that was such a crushing loss, one of so so so many incredible companies being gobbled up, to steal their value add from the world, to be added to the legion of supplicated talent at the titan's feets.
This industry would be so much healthier, we'd have so much less of all this bullshit, this fuckery, if immortal ultra wealthy companies weren't allowed to forever keep eating their fucking young until there's no one left.
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There's also like one company still manufacturing CRTs, and their market is exclusively military and heavy-industrial, replacements for old fighter-jet HUDs and the like: https://www.thomaselectronics.com/avionics/head-up-display/ I'm sure there's at least one wealthy Smash Bros. enthusiast willing to pay their asking price and hook up one of their HUDs to a Gamecube to play Melee though.
I was under the impression that you could purchase cheap newly manufactured CRTs on alibaba. I only know this because someone published an unrelated project that repurposed the electron gun and associated internals.
Good luck selling that to the DOD.
It's surprising the DoD didn't require stockpiles of spares for every electronic component in these phenomenally expensive and long-lived weapon systems. This is after all the one arm of the Federal Government that is both good at logistics and planning, and was able to deliver frozen ice cream and other amenities to the most remote Forward Operating Bases in Afghanistan.
I want to know when Apple sold their last PA Semi PWRficient core to the DoD. https://www.eetimes.com/apple-agrees-to-support-p-a-semi-pro... Man that was such a crushing loss, one of so so so many incredible companies being gobbled up, to steal their value add from the world, to be added to the legion of supplicated talent at the titan's feets. This industry would be so much healthier, we'd have so much less of all…
Turtles all the way down and up: Vehicle makers sourcing plug-compatible devices which emulate floppy drives for updating tank s/w, Airlines sourcing print and terminals emulating IBM mainframe era dependencies for gate check processes. Talking of mainframes, many core bank registry functions are emulations of prior systems long embedded into architectures now themselves superseded. Support for tech archaisms has lon…
IBM mainframes were for a very long time built and sold on the premise of providing reliable emulation of previous generations weren't they.
The latest IBM z/Architecture mainframe (released in 2024) will natively run binaries compiled for the original IBM System/360, released 62 years ago.
The original architecture has been expanded to 64 bits and can (or should) run linux with older code in virtualization.
However, those mainframes are extremely high performance, high reliably, and high cost. Complete overkill for many companies, who can get away with much simpler/cheaper emulations of the System/360 from 3rd parties, or source code ports to more modern architectures.