[sdiy] Hmmm...OK NOW you can panic :(

[Tim Parkhurst]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Metrophage [mailto:c0r3dump23 at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 3:33 PM
> To: Craig Critchley
> Cc: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
> Subject: RE: [sdiy] Hmmm...OK NOW you can panic :(
> 
> --- Craig Critchley <craigc at nwlink.com> wrote:
> > So do NTE replacement ICs suck?
> 
> It's PAYING the bucks for NTE parts that sucks, and making sense of
> decidedly user-unfriendly naming codes. They know that if they used the
> industry standard names for their parts that it would be perfectly easy
> for people to buy the parts from other sources for a fraction of the
> price!
> 

This is also why Fry's stocks NTE parts. At least they keep a NTE catalog
with a part # cross reference on the same shelf. Basically, I get the parts
there when nobody else is open. Sometimes handy late on a Wednesday night!


Tim (night owl with a soldering iron) Servo

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