-------- In message <1415494044.79600.yahoomail...@web161505.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>, Perry Sandeen via time-nuts writes:
>I was shocked, absolutely shocked, really, when I looked at >the latest Mouser catalog about the lack of PDIP I.C.’s. > >That said, we are faced with a dilemma. > >In all my HP test equipment I probably have 500 or more PDip >IC’s, so what to do to keep the equipment running properly? I would start out by not panicing... In a couple of days I will have changed exactly three dead chips in all of my HP kit: One IEEE driver which was DOA, two analog 8-pins in a PSU which likely had a traumatic childhood. It's not like this is a major problem in the first place. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.