Dom,

On Thu, 19 May 2005 17:54:12 +0100, Dominic Stratten wrote:

>...<
>  Maplins are
> a bit better than Radioshack for components but sadly seem to be going =
the
> way Tandy did in the uk and are concentrating more on toys than compone=
nts
> :-(

Indeed, and the thing that really gets my goat is that they seem to be ra=
mping up their "discontinued product"=20
policy.  I've recently found things that they didn't sell the last time I=
 looked, but are discontinued=20
already!  It's a right pain.  Things that have gone that I would have lik=
ed to buy are the MSF 3-hand clock=20
mechanism (you can get a whole clock, or digital modules), EL backlight i=
nverters, E24 resistor packs, and=20
octal relay-bases for DIN rail mounting (they still sell the relays, just=
 not the bases!).  On the other hand=20
they do have dsPIC30Fs in the current catalogue.  And PIC16F84A, of cours=
e!  The latter in -20 version is =A35,=20
compared with the dsPIC30F2010 at =A37...

I visited a newly-opened shop of theirs in Livingston (near Edinburgh) at=
 the weekend, and they had "Opening=20
Store" special offers - I had to buy the =A310 temperature controlled sol=
dering iron, even though I didn't need=20
it, just because it was such good value!  :-)

Cheers,


Howard Winter
St.Albans, England



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