[sdiy] Farnell (Arrow too?) just diched the LM13600

[Metrophage]

A little of each! Farnell's US version is called Newark (though the
Farnell parts and service sound better), and they have never catered to
small orders. My experience with BIG distributors such as Newark,
Allied, etc is to use their online parts database to check actual
quantities and minimums. They often list parts in the catalog which
they stock zero pieces of, as well as parts which they tentatively
offer, if you are willing to buy thousands of them. Typically lazy
"corporate" antics.

One interesting thing to note is that when everybody had run out of
LM13600s about three years ago, I checked National's page for the IC
and found that they had marked it as "obselete", and discontinued. I
noticed a few weeks ago that the LM13600 is back on their site again as
a production item, which I think is extremely kewl! I've never heard of
a big semi manufacturer deciding to give an old IC another go and pull
it out of retirement.

I waited with baited breath for Mouser to get their NJ13600s then, and
bought 100 of them, just because they are so handy! Poor folks... I
called them every day for a week, until one morning they were just
getting them off of the truck. I definately regard Mouser's service
quite well, good service and support of linear ICs, decent prices.

Just think about how in 30-50 years, people will be scrounging old cell
phone and PDA chips, trying to find surface-mounted ICs made of SILICON
to make their fave retro-synths from! "Who sells macroscopic
electronics anymore? Aren't the nano's good enough?"

--- Theo <t.hogers at home.nl> wrote:
> Got a fax back after I ordered, from now on no more LM13600 from
> Farnell
> (didn't carry 13700 to start with).
> Is this a bad omen or just silly from their side?
> 
> Theo
> 
> 



	
		
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