More SMD vs fewer DIPs

[John Speth]

I think that DIP format devices are slowly giving way to SMD format 
devices.  Quite a few newer and better devices are being released by IC 
houses in SMD format only.  SMD is not very friendly to us experimenters.

Does anyone know if any vendor or supplier sells any kind of SMD-to-DIP 
carriers so us non-capital endowed peons can benefit from these new SMD 
devices?

John Speth
Object Engineering, Inc
mailto:johns at oei.com