On Sat, 21 May 2005, Anthony Van Herrewege wrote:

> Last week, I counted all the chips/resistors/... I have and I 
> concluded that for example I have way more types of chips than I will 
> ever be able to remember. So I was wondering, how do you keep track of 
> what parts (type, quantity, ...) you have? Do you use Access (or some 
> other kind of database) or a specially made program or ....?

In the beginning I used a flat text file, one part per line. Later I 
moved part of it to SQL. The flat text file works fine for up to about a 
thousand types (you use text search to find what you need, and sort to 
find duplicates).

Peter
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