Digi-Key also has the best on-line ordering system I've
used anywhere, and that's counting high-volume consumer
places.

But alas, as others have suggested, no Dallas, no TI,
no Berg, no many other things.  I've found that Allied
is a good fill-in, and their online inventory tends to
be pretty accurate so surprises are minimal.  They can
also can sell you stuff that's not in their catalog but
is generally carried by other parts of Avnet, e.g. HH,
and will happlily track down anything from anyone on their
line card, although turnaround on such special orders is
kind of out of their control... I waited three months once
for Berg to make some parts -- longer even for T&B to
cough up an Ansley arbor press crimp tool; I think they
must have had to smelt some iron first or something.

Right now, Allied lists 9 flavors of the TI084, all but the
CD in stock; they have 410 of the ACNs for $0.60 each in
quantities of 25 or more. I called them last Friday for
50 AMP Differential UltraSCSI terminators; they were in my
office on Tuesday.  But then, my sales rep is a real gem;
she's in Baltimore, calls everyone "hon" (a gender-neutral
pronoun in Baltimore), and knows the business backward and
forward.

--Bob

On Thu, Feb 18, 1999 at 05:55:29PM -0500, dave vanhorn wrote:
> >  Or TI parts. Bummer.
>
> I was wishing for some TL084's yesterday in fact. Nice, simple,
> predictable, FET inputs.
>
> >  I think D-K made their niche by putting out a real-world catalog.
> >  The other guys had big fat catalogs but it was mostly BS. They
> >  only stocked stuff there was no way they could lose on. D-K first
> >  catalog was small, but what was in there was REAL. They had it on
> >  the shelf and could have it on your loading dock tomorrow.
>
> As opposed to say newark?? :)
>
> Remember when they had discounts?!

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