Wagner, if we could do adapters for $1 in single qty, I would sell my
house to raise startup capital ;-)

   There are adapters but they are relatively expensive considering you
still have to solder the SOIC, etc, to the adapter. Then there are `older'
guys like me who have difficulty soldering at 0.050" and below ;-)

   - Tom

At 11:30 AM 8/20/99 -0400, Wagner Lipnharski wrote:
>Tom Handley wrote:
>>    I fully understand the need for smaller packages and the dwindling
market
>> for DIPs but I would be willing to pay for DIP samples for evaluation. It's
>> getting to the point where you have a hard time finding even low frequency
>> analog chips in DIP packages... I recently requested a voltage reference
>> sample and I received four samples in a TSOP package even though it was
>> suppose to be available in a DIP...
>
>I believe it is time to someone crazy as us develop a DIP package
>adapter socket for TSSOP's, SOIC's SOP's and other small bacterias and
>microscopic animals to be able to be inserted onto a Protoboard, isn't?
>I am pretty sure it would sell quite well, not in millions, but... can
>you imagine to be able to use that "rail to rail TI quad amplifier" you
>are looking for and insert at that old PCB DIP holes? using a cheap $1
>adapter socket?  I would buy a bunch of it... :)  The only ones I ever
>saw were PLCC adapters to tru hole (JDR or Jameco sell those), but it
>doesn't follow DIP measurements.
>
>Wagner.

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Tom Handley
New Age Communications
Since '75 before "New Age" and no one around here is waiting for UFOs ;-)