Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2007 14:40:11 -0600
From: Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Shameless Plug - 74xxxx series ICs
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
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Doc Shipley wrote:
> I was up there yesterday and they have literally
> 50-60 feet of 6' shelves, nothing but 74xxxx ICs.
Seriously though, thanks for letting us know -
personally I'd rather deal with
people that someone knows personally than some random ebay auction etc.
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