Sorry to hear about your bad experiences with Dallas.  I have not dealt
with them for some time, but several years ago I used many of their clock
chips and non-volatile memory controllers.  I was always completely
satisfied with their performance and their tech support.  They were a
fairly new company at the time - maybe they put extra effort into tech
support -now they're a bigger, established company maybe they have slacked
off in that department.

 * Douglas Martin * Design Engr/Elec. Technician * dmartin@bgsuvax.bgsu.edu *
 *         BGSU Department of Chemistry - Bowling Green, Ohio - USA         *
 * 'Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day . . .'   -  Pink Floyd *
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On Sun, 28 Aug 1994, jory bell wrote:

> Just to put in my two cents: I usually advise against using most any Dallas
> semiconductor compenent (YMMV). In particuar, I had bad experiences with
> their digital pot, their power manager chip, and ther real time clock (a

> which was compounded by unhelpful customer "support."]
>
> the top of my head), the Dallas parts would sometimes start, sometimes not
> depending on the minute vagaries of the reset condition. It also took more
>
> -jory