<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>In a message dated 5/4/02 3:56:42 PM Eastern Daylight Time, studio271@mail.ev1.net writes:
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<BR></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">Haven't tried www.freetradezone.com before, but I googled to no avail on all of them already and I need an account for chipdir, and funds for that do not exist... I thot I mentioned this, but those were only a few ICs out of about 40 different ones that I looked up over the past day or so... I didn't mean for people to get mad at me, or to sound rude for that matter (I'm sorry if I did; please forgive me because I'm a very sensitive person ;/ ).</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">
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<BR>No, nobody here is going to get mad at you...(and even if they did, who cares what they think..90% of self confidence is not giving a fvck...if they're not paying your paycheck or have some other good reason for you to pay close attention to their opinions then those opinions don't really matter.)...Personally, I wouldn't consider it worth while to go after old IC's and logic unless they're very special or needed for spare parts for something. If you build something later out of a bunch of pulled IC's and it doesn't work, troubleshooting could be a pain in the butt because you won't know which one to suspect necessarily and you could have damaged any one of them from overheating. I'm actually in the same boat as far as having old boards lying around that I need to pull parts off of and get rid of, I have two large plastic totes full of them. I'm building a vacuum powered desoldering station for the purpose. I'm mostly going after discrete components (high quality pots, D!
C-DC converters, solid state relays, special LED displays, etc.)
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