[sdiy] Re: Inexpensive 16 bit DAC?

[Harry Bissell Jr]

y'know... students go two ways.  

Some of them blow up all the parts, then become
psychology majors... (no problem anymore)

The rest graduate with engineering degrees... Some of
them go to work, others start their own companies,
often with the IT they developed in school. 

Dare Analog Devices 'not' send you some free parts
(which they aslo send to scumbags on e-bay :^) and
possibly have the "next big thing" use Maxim or Linear
Tech parts because they were too cheap ???

I think not...

I remember when I was in college. RS electronics
refused to SELL PARTS TO ME because I was not a
'corporste account'.  My needs were taken care of by
a little company in Thief River Falls, Minnesota.
The rest is history.  They are (perhaps) #1 today, and
RS is for sh!t.  

fvck you, RS... I have a LONG memory !!!  :^P

H^) harry



--- Ryan Williams <destrukto at cox.net> wrote:
> I'm working on this school project right now, I have
> received about 6 
> DDS ICs as free samples from Analog over the last 3
> months or so (blew 
> up half of them).  These are like $20 each in
> singles and I always make 
> sure to put that it is for a school project but say
> what we are building.
> 
> Most of these places will just hand out parts. 
> Maxim has given me tons 
> of stuff over the last few years. Intersil sent me a
> bunch of CA3280s 
> and HFA3096 and all I said was that I wanted to do
> some experiments with 
> discrete vs IC OTAs.  As long as I state my
> intentions in the comment 
> box and put 'student' as my job title, I don't feel
> bad about receiving 
> the parts. I figure if it wasn't an acceptable
> reason to get free parts, 
> then they wouldn't send them.
> 
> -Ryan
> 
> Bob Weigel wrote:
> > Usually you have to tell them that you are like
> working on something 
> > where you might actually BUY some chips to get
> samples...or does Analog 
> > just hand them out to anyone?  I could have been
> getting samples all 
> > along for the project I'm working on from
> microchip but I haven't even 
> > had time to ask for them and I feel bad doing it
> because we really don't 
> > need them except that that company is out of money
> I guess so maybe we 
> > do :-). -Bob
> > 
>