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From: tom@aquarius.as.arizona.edu (Thomas J. Trebisky)
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Subject: Re: Sources for MC68030RC25 and MC68882RC25
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Date: 8 Dec 90 17:26:17 GMT
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In article <26754@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> stevel@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Steve Ligett) writes:
>When I called Wyle to get a quote on these parts (or maybe it was slower
>ones), they made a big to-do of it.  I forget if they called them
>blue-<something>, or blue-light specials ;-), but they asked if I'd
>called anyone else for a quote, grilled me, and generally made me feel
>that they weren't sure I was moral enough to buy them.  Perhaps they
>want to make sure that we won't waste them by using them in toasters,
>etc.

I cannot resist grinding an axe here, but it is consoling to find I am not the
only person who has run up against a brick-wall dealing with distributors.
I mean, if you aren't General Motors ready to go into production tomorrow
they just about laugh you off the phone.  A rare exception (at least
in my dealings) has been Hamilton-Avnet (they do distribute Motorola parts).
I wish the rest of these outfits would become enlightened - I mean if someone
wants to buy one or two of some fairly exotic part, they aren't gonna make
a huge profit this week, but odds are the person is either building a
prototype which could go into production someday, or is a budding young
hardware designer that someday will have a job, wanting to order thousands
of whatever and will remember what a major pain in the ******* such and such
outfit gave him when he was trying to get just one MCxxxxx way back when and
will avoid giving them his business.

Whew, that felt good - I have been waiting to let all that go for some time now.
I just hope the reps from ***** and %%%%% and ^^%^^ read this newsgroup.
Seriously though, if people out there know how to get small quantities of
semiconductor parts without abuse and embarassment from distributors it would
be good to know about it. JDR microdevices is fine for what they handle, but
I sure haven't seen 68030 or 68302 parts in their listings.