Don't you hate it? It's painful how much some of this
connector stuff costs. You could probably make your
own Y jumpers for about $1-2 or so. Most crimp contacts
cost maybe between $0.10 and $0.50 each, depnding on
material, plating and other factors (manufacturer's
good name unfortunately being one of them). The Berg
jumpers also have the contacts covered with heat-shrink
of the right thickness that they fit tightly next to
each other in a 0.1"x0.1" grid without bending the pins.
Jumpers are undoubtedly available cheaper, but I bet not
*much* cheaper, and the 250-pin daisy chain is a very
convenient format.

Microcontrollers are an unbelievable bargain by comparison.

--Bob

On Wed, Feb 10, 1999 at 10:31:02PM -0500, Wagner Lipnharski wrote:
> > A reel costs US$233 from Allied Electronics; see
> > http://www.allied.avnet.com/catalog/catalogpages/467.pdf,
>
> ... a reel with 250 pins cost $233? isn't almost $3 some quite
> expensive for a Y jumper? when you can buy by almost the same
> price a microcontroller with 8k flash, 2k eeprom, 24MHz and more...
>
> Wagner.

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