At 12:11 PM 27/04/2015, you wrote:

>I've never had the need to try them out, but it is generally reported that
>if Microchip ever sold it 'way back then', you can buy it from them now.
>There may be exceptions (maybe not) but if you MUST have a 20 year old par=
t
>you can buy it. Service like that takes some going past.

AFAICT, they've dropped the parts that require a ceramic windowed package, =
but
if you designed the same part in an OTP package (using the windowed part fo=
r
development - ugh, bad memories) you can still get them. Eg. PIC17C756a.

That kind of policy has to come from the top- it obviously trims their
profits a bit in the short term to have to stock dies/wafers for many years
or whatever else they have to do to make it happen, but long term it can ea=
rn
great customer loyalty.

--Spehro Pefhany=20

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