amiga92570 wrote:
MIl spec involves ceramic chips(most hardened with radiation) and gold leads in all IC's and contact points. Also all components caps, resistors, ect 5% or less rating. I have seen this as standard for the last 25 years working in aerospace. I like amigas but have never seen this to be the case in amiga.
Mil-Spec doesnt require ceramic parts or gold leads on IC or contact points. Mil Spec mostly has to do with temperature requirements of parts which is more to do with Mil-Temp then anything else, thats why most were ceramic, because in the beginning most plastic parts couldnt take the temperature environment when plastic parts first came out. I've delivered systems to most every fighter, the apache, v22, c130, and several version of AWACs and not a one has had parts with gold leads. In addition, the only aircraft that still flys and requires rad hardness (which is a different spec) is the B-52, and that may be going away as a requirement there. Space programs require rad hardness and gold is really a throwback to the space spec, but thats a whole different set of specs with different requirements, and the leads on all those parts arent made of gold there basically plated for better conductivity, we used to do it here for the space stuff. Were Amiga parts ever Mil-Spec, no, its possible that the MOS ceramic parts would have passed such a test if it had been carried out, but it never was, and anyone implying that they were Mil-Spec parts is incorrect. However the A2000 in my closet did play in Zero-G for awhile on the Vomet Comet, thats kinda like it was in space
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-Tig
