11 Aug
2006
11 Aug
'06
1:37 p.m.
"Roy J. Tellason" <rtellason at verizon.net> wrote:
On Thursday 10 August 2006 10:35 pm, David Griffith
wrote:
Well, they don't sell Digital Keyer kits like they did when they started!
But you cannot fault Digikey because they don't stock every single
obsolete part ever made. They are a catalog house, and if they don't
always stock it then it gets ordered from the manufacturer, with
typical lead times and often minimum orders. Just because you and me
want good a MSI/VLSI F-series TTL part in DIP doesn't mean that
anyone else in the world does!
TI, Fairchild, etc. really do work to keep most TTL parts/variants
orderable, and when they are then the catalog houses like Digikey,
Mouser, etc. can get them for us.
I have succesfully and happily ordered "not normally stocked" stuff
The no-stock-on-hand part got me confuzzled.
What exactly does that mean?
Wait a bit for it to get in stock or "who knows when they'll have it?"?
The Magic-1 requires three 74F381s and two 74F382s.
Grr! I just sent off an order to Digikey yesterday!
It's my understanding from what I've read in comments by others that they've
shifted their emphasis somewhat toward large corporate buyers so that they
don't stock as much as they used to, or something like that. from Digikey in the past with great success, as a
private individual.
Some of the other suppliers mentioned in this thread are surplus-only dealers,
they might have a supply but when it's gone, then it's gone.
Continually I see massive quantities of useful-to-classiccmper
parts show up at auction houses or on E-bay. Things like quantity 20,000
ECL chips common to 70's or 80's superminis or minisupers, often qualified
to meet a specific manufacturer's speed specs (I'm most familiar with
the DEC variants). Even spread
out among all of us with ECL-based PDP-10's, I don't think we need more
than a fraction of those gigantic lots :-).
Tim.