[sdiy] TI to buy NatSemi!!!!!

[Neil Johnson]

David,

>> Why should they? Just for those clumsy MELF resistors? All
>> others have numbers on them or no marking at all.
>
> Breadboard much with those, Ingo?

In the real world, outside of the cosy slow-paced realm of DIY,
breadboarding went out years ago.  It is far cheaper to go straight to
PCB and debug there, not least because the majority of the components
you'll be using are SMT.  RFis about the only domain where traditional
breadboarding still takes place, although that has its own weird rules
of construction and may still use SMT devices, stuck down to copper
ground planes with wires sticking out at odd angles.

Other than home DIY projects the last time I breadboarded a
non-trivial circuit (i.e.,  beyond push buttons, LED blinky-lights and
connectors :-) was around 1993.

Cheers,
Neil
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