Well, we can take comfort in knowing that it's not just Microchip... Now-required subscription info, not that I think that anyone really wants to: Go to http://www.pcserv.demon.co.uk/gnuh8/ and follow the bouncing ball... (I figured, since we just did Lawrence Welk, maybe we could do Mitch Miller now... :-) --Bob -- ============================================================ Bob Drzyzgula It's not a problem bob@drzyzgula.org until something bad happens ============================================================ http://www.drzyzgula.org/bob/electronics/ ============================================================ Return-Path: Received: from localhost (bob@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nexus.drzyzgula.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA11112 for ; Thu, 23 Sep 1999 19:17:10 -0400 From: bpaddock@csonline.net Received: from mail.eskimo.com by fetchmail-4.5.8 POP3 for (multi-drop); Thu, 23 Sep 1999 19:17:10 EDT Received: from fed-ef1.frb.gov (fed.frb.gov [132.200.32.32]) by mx1.eskimo.com (8.9.1a/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA07446 for ; Thu, 23 Sep 1999 16:14:29 -0700 Received: by fed-ef1.frb.gov; id TAA21339; Thu, 23 Sep 1999 19:14:27 -0400 (EDT) Received: from m1pmdf.frb.gov(192.168.3.38) by fed.frb.gov via smap (V4.2) id xma021256; Thu, 23 Sep 99 19:13:28 -0400 Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 18:49:37 -0400 Subject: Re: chips wanted badly In-reply-to: <37EA9C9D.EADF50D1@eink.com> To: jkumpf@eink.com Cc: gnuh8@pcserv.demon.co.uk Reply-to: bpaddock@csonline.net Message-id: Organization: is mostly via piles MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: <37EA9C9D.EADF50D1@eink.com> X-Newsreader: VSoup v1.2.9.37Beta [95/NT] X-UIDL: 938426ef7e9fc20c2b144d7736aab343 >We're also having trouble getting chips from Hitachi. >We're in desperate waters. We ordered them back in August. >But time is running out. >Anyone want to sell "H8/3437f" or "H8/3434" to us? >We need 500, but will take almost any amount. Looks like Hitachi has screwed us all. We where told six months, MAYBE, for the H8/3048 FLASH part. We had placed orders for these months ago. Any one have those around? Looks like it is time to dump Hitachi and move to some thing else. Maybe the MEGA-AVR? -- For information on any of the following check out my WEB site at: http://www.biogate.com/bpaddock/ Chemical Free Air Conditioning/No CFC's, Chronic Pain Relief, Echofone, Electromedicine, Electronics, Explore!, Free Energy, Full Disclosure, KeelyNet, Matric Limited, Neurophone, Oil City PA, Philadelphia Experiment. http://www.uCOS-II.com