group buy for homebrew CPUs?

Dave McGuire wrote: Chuck Guzis wrote: I suspect that the legacy DIP stuff will get harder to buy new through "normal" channels, given RoHS. In the long run, I suppose we'd all better get used to working with surface mount. :( Nah, not anytime soon...unless I'm hallucinating, plenty of DIPs are available as RoHS compliant parts now. There's nothing "legacy" about DIPs just yet. That said, the notion that surface mount is somehow "harder to solder" is nothing but a load of crap. It is DIFFERENT...not harder. In fact, I find all but the very smallest SMT parts EASIER to work with than through-hole components. I suspect that someone, way back when, was afraid of it and said "it's to haaaard" and people have been propagating that rumor ever since. -Dave Dave, Close up SMD work when your pushing 40 or 50 is tricky. I can easely handle the finest pitch when I'm looking through a binoc microscope. It's quite amusing to see a 30 gauge blue wire and solder the size of a truck while trying to mod a board. Without optical assistance, I might as well be trying to neuter a fly with a butcher knife. Jim Davis.