On Mar 4, 2011, at 1:56 PM, peter green wrote:

> The problem that initially motivated me to write the stock database =20
> was
> that a lot of parts were bought initially for some project and are =20
> filed
> with that project's stuff

Heh.  It's cheaper to just get the vendors to send you new parts than =20
to maintain a database of what you actually have and where it is.

I "dumpster-dive" the eWaste bins at work.  When I found $20K+ worth =20
of Fancy FPGAs, still sealed in their moisture-proof pouch on the =20
trash heap, I actually went so far as to ask whether there was someway =20
to feed these back into use (especially since they weren't =20
particularly useful to me, being 1000+ ball BGAs...)   There =20
wasn't.  :-(  ("you can't put engineering stock into the Production =20
part chain."  "That particular part is now out-of-date and unlikely to =20
be used in any new projects." etc.)

BillW

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