Ross compressor: CA3080 same as LM3080?

[Xavier]

I'm starting to build a Ross Comp as per Toney's vero layout. I do have LM3080 IC's and I'd like to know if it's the same as the specified CA3080. After looking for the datasheets, it seems to be so. Are they the same?

[Processaurus]

Its the same, just a different manufacturer.  I think national stopped making them before Intersil, so people started specifying CA3080.

[toneless]

Yep they are the same...grab as much as you can!

[analog kid]

 "Grab as much as you can!"
    Why ? Are those chips like getting hard to get or scarce now? I just wondered cause I always have gotten my NOS (i guess , they come random in the the only 3 marking I've ever seen) 3080E's for 85cents apiece and have never had any trouble with them being in stock.  (?) I hope that doesn't mean that one day there'll just be NO MORE from my source!?
  If that's the case I guess I SHOULD be picking up all that I can buy too, rather than just getting one or two every time I order.
  Sorry to hijack here, just peaked my interest

[Toney]

Out of producution...but realistically, how many would you need?
http://www.elixant.com/~stompbox/smfforum/index.php?topic=30600.0

[brett]

Hi.
these things make excellent signal generators, too.  I like em better than the 13600s. 
I reckon buy 100 and sell em for $10 each in 10 years !!