On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 02:37:46PM +0200, Tjaart van der Walt wrote:
>
> Are you buying from RS or Maplin? ;))

Well, you know, if Marlin P. Jones doesn't
carry it, it's not worth having...

> NEC is not in the hobby-ist game, so you won't find
> onesies and twosies.

Not even tensies and twentiesies? Maybe tubesies? :-)

There is a tiny niche between hobby and volume production,
where even the cost of a deveopment system is justifiable,
but the volumes don't justify, on either side, schmoozing
with the local sales force. uChip, Atmel, and many of the
8051 vendors seem to be quite happy making products
available to that market. It would be easier if vendors
that didn't want that kind of business would be more up
front about it: "Our products are only available in carload
quantities", or something like that.

--Bob

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