Benjamin Bromilow said:
> > > What is their phone number?
> >
> > http://www.crownhill.co.uk
> >
> > +44 (0) 1353 666709
> > (all in the contact info section)
> >
> > Used them a few times, always been very happy with the service.
> >
> I can second that. My PICs and EEPROMs (Microchip I2C) came this morning.
I
> ordered them less than 48 hours ago. Cheap as chips too. 1.95+vat for
16F84
> but also for 16F628 so I've gone for those instead.....
Same here - I got two 16F874s for #4.50+VAT each. Maplins wanted #12.99
incvat just for one!

> Good price for the EEPROM too and they have bits like oscillators and
> transistors etc......
You're forgetting the 14-bit 35 instruction RISC core that the PICs are so
famous for :-)
I think I spent a week reading the datasheet and I've memorized nearly every
instruction in there and what it does. Try doing that with the 8052 (IIRC it
has over 100 opcodes!)
Need I say that this is the number one reason the PIC is my favourite
microcontroller?

> ... Still have to go to Maplins for some bits though!
Try Farnell at www.farnell.com - a lot of the stuff they sell is cheaper
than Maplins sell it at. Believe it or not, one of the "techies" at the
local Maplins actually said Microchip were discontinuing all the PICs!!! A
quick look at Microchip's website revealed that to be entirely the opposite.
To be fair, he was a trainee...

The one thing that really annoys me is that they've discontinued most of the
wide range of semiconductors they used to sell - the TEA2000 video
generator, the TLC548 analogue-to-digital converter, a few parts from the
PIC range... The list goes on.

Later.
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Phil.
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