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Ralph said: "as far as I know" and he was right enough for the information he had at the time. With RoHS we were not sure about what to do. Nevertheless, the PegasosPPC continues to ship.
Pegasos production has traditionally happens on a fairly long-term basis; it's scheduled, parts are ordered, lead times taken into account, this can take weeks or months - some components have had a lead time of 12 weeks from the initial order, if the vendor has been low on stock.
RoHS resets all this because it's a whole new set of components from scratch in some cases. There was a lot of planning in finding RoHS parts that would work.. it's also possible that some parts were simply unavailable in lead-free options. This is a lot of effort.
It's a lot like baking a cake, except you can do that in an hour and usually the supermarket has stock of the basic ingredients. Imagine if they outlawed flour and vanilla, and you could only buy a certain kind of fruit for it. It makes it a little more time consuming