This spring I ordered a small nearly-unobtainium electronic part from a store in B.C.... it took two full weeks. Came the same day as another envelope from California. Both padded envelopes had obviously been run over by a cart. Good thing he didn't put a "Fragile" sticker on it!
Luckily the very rare part (a hybrid sampling bridge for a Tek S-4 head, if you're interested ) is mounted in a tough aluminum block, and survived.
"The S-4 sampling gate is based upon a traveling wave trapped-charge transmission line in which the sampling window is set by the propagation time of a pulse edge through a thick-film transmission line. This technique requires only a sharp pulse edge rather than a precise pulse width, which is harder to generate. The sampling diodes are housed in a special coaxial connector that provides a high bandwidth signal path."
Now my head hurts.
"We live in a time when intelligent people are being silenced so that stupid people won't be offended".
) is mounted in a tough aluminum block, and survived.
