Digikey doth truly rule

[Bill M]

Ol' Duffer wrote:


If you noticed, each newer catalog has *more* parts; more brands, more
variety, more types, etc.

I wonder how long Mouser can keep up the quarterly catalogs. They are
getting huge these days! About 3 times the size of what they were just
2-3 years ago.

I'm not griping mind you, but I'd hate to have to do all my daydreaming
and parts selections online.

-Bill

 

[Spehro Pefhany]

... Higher prices, less quantity price breaks, etc., etc. Oh, did I
mention, higher prices..

I just love wotking on the PCs in our Purchasing Dept. :-/ They have a
whole shelf full of janitorial supply catalogs. Just think, if we could
only gwt all these catalogs and paper towels recycled, we'd save a whole
continent of forests..

Those janitorial supply guys have *really* high prices. Between
telephone directories, Mouser, Digikey, trade rags, paper packing and
EEM, the recycling box is never hungry. A few printouts don't amount
to much, and the few newspapers tend to get used for packing, which is
lighter than that recycled paper packing that Digikey uses.


Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany

 

[Tim Shoppa]

Have a look at the Farnell

I spent some time playing around with the Farnell/Newark web selectors
and they actually are pretty decent. Just like Digikey, they sometime
get tripped up by obscure numbering (for example, Newark/Farnell
calling 0603 size SMT parts 603 in many instances) or other gotchas,
but in principle the two mechanisms seem to be approximately
equivalent.

So, attaboy Newark/Farnell! Maybe they'll get more than one order
every 5 years from me now

Tim.

 

[Daniel Haude]

["Followup-To:" header set to sci.electronics.design.]
On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 15:33:16 -0000,

Have a look at the Farnell and RS websites (UK):

You've got to be kidding. I find the RS website impossible to use. I
always refer to the printed catalog. Also they want me to register to
access data sheets etc.

Of course it's easy to just punch in a part number and get taken to the
appropriate result. But if you're searching a bit less specific -- say,
for a certain kind of connector you've seen somewhere, everything falls
apart because there's no such thing as a parametric search engine. Turning
tha pages of the paper catalog is much quicker.

--Daniel

 

[RST Engineering]

I remember Jerry Mouser in his claptrap pickup truck peddling "jappo crappo"
capacitors and resistors out of the bed of the truck at a lot of the
companies in San Diego in the late '60s.

Things have changed...

Jim



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[Leon Heller]

I spent some time playing around with the Farnell/Newark web selectors
and they actually are pretty decent. Just like Digikey, they sometime
get tripped up by obscure numbering (for example, Newark/Farnell
calling 0603 size SMT parts 603 in many instances) or other gotchas,
but in principle the two mechanisms seem to be approximately
equivalent.

So, attaboy Newark/Farnell! Maybe they'll get more than one order
every 5 years from me now

The nice thing about Farnell is that they don't charge for normal delivery
and I usually get what I order the following day. That's in the UK, of
course.

Leon

 

[Robert Baer]

... Higher prices, less quantity price breaks, etc., etc. Oh, did I
mention, higher prices..

I just love wotking on the PCs in our Purchasing Dept. :-/ They have a
whole shelf full of janitorial supply catalogs. Just think, if we could
only gwt all these catalogs and paper towels recycled, we'd save a whole
continent of forests..

....and if all spam could be stopped, trillions of dollars per year would
be saved, as well as all of the power required to run all of the
involved computers.

 

[Bill M]

...and if all spam could be stopped, trillions of dollars per year would
be saved, as well as all of the power required to run all of the
involved computers.

Think of the unemployment that would result.


-Bill

 

[Michael A. Terrell]

Think of the unemployment that would result.


-Bill

Think about all the extra bandwidth on the net after the spam died!
So what if some sleaze balls stare to death? They should have had
honest jobs like cleaning toilets and digging ditches.

 

[Bill M]

Think about all the extra bandwidth on the net after the spam died!
So what if some sleaze balls stare to death? They should have had
honest jobs like cleaning toilets and digging ditches.

What about all the honest workers like power company employees who have
a job thanks to spam? Should they also "stare to death"?

-Bill

 

[Michael A. Terrell]

What about all the honest workers like power company employees who have
a job thanks to spam? Should they also "stare to death"?

-Bill

No, just let them catch up on maintenance that gets pushed aside, or
let them go to work for the cable company! They are still doing
repairs in Ocala from last year's hurricanes and its almost time for
hurricane season again. I saw some wires still on the ground along I-75
near Gainsville a couple weeks ago that went down during Frances.
Progress energy just repaired a damaged pole near my house that was
damaged during Frances.

 

[Bill M]

Michael A. Terrell wrote:

I saw some wires still on the ground along I-75
near Gainsville a couple weeks ago that went down during Frances.
Progress energy just repaired a damaged pole near my house that was
damaged during Frances.

Bummer isn't it? One of the unforeseen costs of spam.

-Bill

 

[RST Engineering]

Why did I know in my gut that a decent conversation on a relevant topic
would degenerate into the usual bunch of crap within a couple of days?

Jim

 

[Michael A. Terrell]

Why did I know in my gut that a decent conversation on a relevant topic
would degenerate into the usual bunch of crap within a couple of days?

Jim

I guess it finally degenerated enough for you to join in?

Actually, with less spam on the net you could brows the vendor's
websites faster because there would be more bandwidth free for real
browsing.

 

[Watson A.Name - \Watt Sun, the Dark Remover\]

I wonder how long Mouser can keep up the quarterly catalogs. They are
getting huge these days! About 3 times the size of what they were just
2-3 years ago.

I'm not griping mind you, but I'd hate to have to do all my daydreaming
and parts selections online.

If you don't, you're already missing out on some things. The paper
catalog doesn't have everything that's online.

 

[Bill M]

Watson A.Name - "Watt Sun, the Dark Remover" wrote:

If you don't, you're already missing out on some things. The paper
catalog doesn't have everything that's online.

Maybe so, but so far I've always been able to find everything I need in
the paper catalog so it still gets a big thumbs up from me for convenience.

-Bill

 

[Watson A.Name - \Watt Sun, the Dark Remover\]

Think about all the extra bandwidth on the net after the spam died!
So what if some sleaze balls stare to death? They should have had
honest jobs like cleaning toilets and digging ditches.

Problem is, a lot of the spammers are down there in your area, in Boca
Raton. I wish the hurricanes had wiped them out!
http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/sep2004/nf20040915_0180_db03
5.htm

 

[Michael A. Terrell]

Problem is, a lot of the spammers are down there in your area, in Boca
Raton. I wish the hurricanes had wiped them out!
<http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/sep2004/nf20040915_0180_db035.htm>

They interviewed one of the spammers on local TV just before
Hurricane Frances went through. She was bragging about how easy it was
to opt out but couldn't see what was wrong with getting plastered with
her crap in the first place.

The bandwidth problem here is getting worse. If you don't go
broadband you might as well give up accessing the net until midnight.
Also, newer web design software is so bloated some servers crawl to the
point they don't have the capacity or bandwidth to do their job.

 

[Watson A.Name - \Watt Sun, the Dark Remover\]

<http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/sep2004/nf20040915_0180_db0
35.htm>


They interviewed one of the spammers on local TV just before
Hurricane Frances went through. She was bragging about how easy it was
to opt out but couldn't see what was wrong with getting plastered with
her crap in the first place.

The bandwidth problem here is getting worse. If you don't go
broadband you might as well give up accessing the net until midnight.
Also, newer web design software is so bloated some servers crawl to the
point they don't have the capacity or bandwidth to do their job.

Must've been sht Spam Queen. Bitch.
http://spam.surferbeware.com/spam-spam-queen.htm

 

[Rich Grise]

Must've been sht Spam Queen. Bitch.
http://spam.surferbeware.com/spam-spam-queen.htm

The main problem is the morons that comprise the 4 percent that actually
buy crap from the spammers.

FOUR PERCENT! That's a phenomenal return, even for a pre-qualified
mailing list.

As long as they can keep getting paid, they'll keep doing it. It's like
the war on drugs - it's like stopping the tide.

Sigh.
Rich