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you wind up with more vias. and there is a &%

> $# d*mn photo diode on my floor, somewhere.

I have a white floor, for the same reason. It was not easy to find, and the
flooring sales guys thought I was crazy.

Getting back to Maxim, they have cool parts, great samples, but when you
only need a hundred parts or so, they are pretty tough to get. Even when I
needed 50,000 ics, it was still hard to get a decent delivery from them. If
only they would handle production as easily as they handle samples.

Ron