Jameco has the "schwab's school assortment" that looks relatively interesting, as well as more ... deterministic parts collections. I've bought a couple of the latter, mostly as "refill kits" (no cabinet) and been pretty happy... (OTHO, I don't think I understand why anyone would want 100 EACH of 2n3904 and 2n2222a transistors. Granted that they're both popular, but aren't they largely interchangable with each other? I've been picking up better bargins from eBay and the surplus dealers, assuming things like "a general purpose 100mA NPN transistor IS a general purpose 100mA NPN transistor, and 972kohms is more or less 1Mohm, and so on, but it takes a while.) BillW -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics