S-100 Bus Voltages

From: John Foust <jfoust_at_threedee.com>
Date: Sun Jun 3 08:27:15 2001

At 10:59 PM 6/2/01 -0500, Eric Dittman wrote:
>The boards had several tantalum capacitors.

I thought I'd recently heard a news story that
claimed that 80% of the world's supply comes from
a single mine in the Australian outback, but that
may only be a slight exaggeration:

http://www.cellular.co.za/technologies/phones/tantalum.htm

which leads to tantalum ore poaching:

http://www.ebnews.com/digest/story/OEG20010427S0086

Perhaps a richer source of ore is old computers.

- John
Received on Sun Jun 03 2001 - 08:27:15 BST