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To: Road Walker who wrote (95222)	1/6/2000 5:31:00 PM
From: Robert Salasidis	Respond to of 186894

I realize it was tongue in cheek, but as to the component shortages, I don't know what was LU's probelm, and I am sure component manufacturers would bend over backwards to supply then with their requirements. As to where low ESR tantalum caps are used (there was equal allocation time in regular ESR tantalum caps as well), they are used in DC/DC converters on power supplies (therefore many handheld battery devices (cell phones, laptops etc)), bypass capacitance on digital circuits (high speed communications equipment, motherboards, and anything else operating over a few dozen MHz). I had to make a small purchase for a small device I am prototyping, and other than the caps, I had no problem in getting all the other parts I required.