Shameless Plug - 74xxxx series ICs

MC Howard is about a mile from my house. I've shopped there for years. The only bad thing I can dredge up to say about them is that prices may vary wildly. Sometimes they charged me $.50 to program a handful of EPROMs, other times it was closer to a dollar or two. I've had many happy shopping hours there. There. Now someone who has personally dealt with them has recommended them. :-) I would have mentioned them myself, but it just never occurred to me that they were that rare/sought-after/valuable. I guess one takes the familiar for granted. Bob, my favorite sales person there, retired last year, but the other folks seem nice enough. I was used to Bob. All the times I've been there, they've never had any WD92C32s. I'm still looking for those at something close to $1 each. I've found folks who'll sell them at $5 each. I did find a handful of 92C16s at Howard's. Found some 68882s there, one at 50 MHz once. They still have a few at 16 MHz. I never found any 53C80s there, but I've found some 85C30s. They have a book shelf of old datasheet books for browsing and Bob used to make me photocopies if I found a chip that interested me. They also have a large assortment of housings and plugs and receptacles and sockets and such. Handy to have nearby when you're trying to get things to mate. Jeff Walther