[sdiy] NTE ahhhhhhhh!

[Scott Gravenhorst]

"Colin f" <colin at colinfraser.com> wrote:
>> If you go 
>> to nteinc.com and put CA3081 in field you will get the NTE916. Shame 
>> there isn't a backwards cross reference, been wanting one for a while.
>
>Not that I would advocate such a thing, but it occurs to me that a
>fairly simple perl script to post every number between 00 and 99999 to
>the NTE cross-reference form, and capture the results into a spreadsheet
>might give you the reverse-lookup facility you desire.

I had thought this too, however you also need to prefix the range of
numbers with "SN", "CA", "TL" and every other chip prefix the industry
uses.  That would give us a fairly comprehensive reverse xref.


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