“Another mystery is WHERE would you be buying these in 2017?”
Defense contracts do it, but probably at a significant cost. DoD pays companies not to deprecate things. For one NORAD system, we paid HP to keep 32k magnetic core memory parts for us, and those things cost about $65k a piece well into the 1990’s.
Appropriations! appropriations! Need more budget!
Has it ever went down???
This is where we are getting raped, they got the money to replace this 20 years ago yet it never made it to where it was supposed to go.