On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 07:44:17AM -0400, Olin Lathrop wrote:
> * There are some notable exceptions.  Crystals and PIC come to mind
> immediately.  For some reason, they have a very limited selection of
> crystals for parallel resonant application, and their PIC prices are
> (uncharacteristically) out of line.  Use DigiKey for the former and
> buy.microchip.com for the latter unless you can buy over 1000 at a time.

How's your experiences with buy.microchip.com been? I've nearly bought
stuff from them a few times, whenever digikey ran out of whatever chip I
really had wanted to use, but each time digikey seems to magically have
a dozen more in stock right when I need them.

FWIW I would never have a need to buy more of about 100 PICs at a time,
and usually no more than 10-20.

Of course, customs could be a killer, me being in Canada. Couriers
always seem to charge a lot of fees for brokerage to say the least.

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