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Why NASA’s newest space shuttle uses a computer chip from 2002
- DanBC 12y agoMany year ago I was asked to provide a component cost quote for "a device". The parts list specified a Bourns resistor network - a standard easily available part - but specifiedthe 1% tolerance part. This was a rare impossible to find part. The parts list had instructions for testing the normal 2% part to find parts that suit the spec. My bosses at the time refused to use that teat procedure and insisted on the listed 1% part. This meant I sent emails to the few brokers I knew, which then started a bidding war with myself for this part amoung those brokers - driving the price much higher than the already high price it was at. TL:DR aerospace/mining/etc projects really suck if the design engineers do stupid things.