[sdiy] Another new hard to find part....

[Scott Gravenhorst]

"Roy J. Tellason" <rtellason at blazenet.net> wrote:
>On Tuesday 06 July 2004 02:03 pm, Scott Gravenhorst wrote:
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>> >Got any particularly good sources for data sheets and app notes?  I'm
>> > familiar with Dial,  but they have an awful lot of gaps in there and
>> > there was one other I hit recently,  but I can't recall where it was
>> > offhand.
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>> I just google, usually I find a free PDF within the first page of hits.
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>How do you frame your query?  I've had mixed results trying that...

Believe it or not, just the number or a piece of it and "pdf", 
like "4046 pdf".

Or if that didn't work, "4046 data sheet".  I've had excellent results.

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>> Then I save it because there's no guarantee it will stay there.  I think
>> that many of us here have collections of these, so if you bump up against
>> an impossible to find one, a plea for help here will work.  I have 87 PDFs
>> in my collection.
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>Oh yeah!  I'm turning into an information packrat!  Too often somebody will 
>post a link and by the time I try it the page isn't there any more.  In my 
>collection I have 14 datasheets for diodes (!),  83 for transistors,  and 116 
>for various chips,   so far.  This is only the stuff that I've filed away,  
>there's probably more in my "downloads" directory that I haven't put there 
>yet.    :-)
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