[sdiy] More Damn chip IDs.

[Rainer Buchty]

>          Thanks for that. I registered with Partminer thinking "You beauty!
> I can do this all by my self for a change." Only to discover that it
> wouldn't give me the datasheets I needed. I hate these extortionists. Where
> 'n' hell did they spring from anyway? What asshole venture capitalist
> bankrolled the ventures? There was a golden time on the net where the rule
> was. "Information wants to be free." and it was alright when everyone was
> happy to share.

And the best thing is: In former times Partminer was indeed free... They
changed it about half a year ago -- and were stupid enough not to lock
their server directories. So there obviously exist dumps of their database
in many places -- but someone needs to view each and every file due to
the linear naming (well, make that numbering) scheme of Partminer's
documents.

What I highly dislike is that they are actually selling stuff which was
out there for free (or at least a nominal fee in case of some data books).

Maybe we should just think of setting up an alternative by scanning in our
old data books and publishing them on the web for free...

Rainer

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Rainer Buchty, LRR, Technical University of Munich @ Garching
Phone: +49 89 289-18476, Fax +49 89 289-28232, Room 01.06.061