On Friday 11 August 2006 05:32 pm, Chuck Guzis wrote:
  On 8/11/2006 at 4:37 PM shoppa_classiccmp at
trailing-edge.com wrote:
 I have succesfully and happily ordered "not
normally stocked" stuff
from Digikey in the past with great success, as a private individual. 
 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. :( 
I ain't goin' there!
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Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space,  a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed.  --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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