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From: fredm@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Fred Martin)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Active Electronics & Other Mail-Order Companies
Summary: re:  All Electronics
Message-ID: <5512@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Date: 14 Mar 91 18:07:21 GMT
References: <1991Mar8.070141.25985@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <4660007@hpfcdc.HP.COM> <JON_SREE.91Mar14091512@world.std.com>
Organization: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA
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In article <JON_SREE.91Mar14091512@world.std.com>,
jon_sree@world.std.com (Jon Sreekanth) writes: 
> 
>        All Electronics Corp
>        818-904-0524
> 
> While we're on the subject, what do people think of All Electronics ? 
> Are their IC's new ? Grey market ? (if such a thing exists)
> 
> I bought some transformers and simple TTL's from them recently. 
> One of the transformers seemed DOA. The chips seemed to work ok, but
> the leads were dull and I was a little suspicious of their origin.
> 

I've never bought ICs from All (because they're prices are a tad high
on ICs), but I consider them an *excellent* supplier of all sorts of
robotics-type stuff--- motors, photocells, connectors, etc.  I am
quite impressed with quality and variety of their surplus inventory.
In general their prices are quite good.

To respond to Jon: All Elex, and probably most surplus dealers, have
old ICs, pullouts or whatever.  Sometimes, this can be a big win: just
a couple months ago, I needed about 75 pieces of an 'HC374.  NOBODY in
retail had it in stock -- I tried Mouser, Active, and several other
dealers.  Finally I called Jameco, and they shipped me the parts in
two days.

Sure, they were 1984 dated-coded, but they worked fine!



	- Fred Martin
	  MIT Media Lab