[net.micro] Anyone know where i can find 74S151's?

dmmartindale@watcgl.UUCP (Dave Martindale) (09/25/83)

We have a poorly-designed interface between a minicomputer and a frame
buffer which destroys a particular chip once every couple of months.
The chips it eats are 74S151's.  Our local hardware person says that
these particular Schottky chips have not been produced for 8 years and
he can no longer buy them.  Does anyone know of a distributor who
still sells them for certain (in Canada is best; anywhere in North
America is fine)?  Does anyone have a cache of them that they no longer
have any use for?

I know that fixing the interface board is the best long-term solution,
but we hope to have abandoned that particular host within a year
so we'd like to avoid spending much time and money on it if we can
keep it operating by just replacing chips as they die.

Thanks for any help,

	Dave Martindale
	Computer Graphics Lab
	University of Waterloo
	{decvax!watmath,allegra} !watcgl!dmmartindale

dmmartindale@watcgl.UUCP (Dave Martindale) (09/27/83)

Well, it turns out that someone has been telling our hardware person tales.
Someone found a source of supply for them in Toronto; someone else found
ones that had been manufactured as recently as 1980.  So we don't have a
problem anymore.

I was impressed with the number of people who responded, and their
helpfulness.  Thanks to those who replied and those who looked in
their IC stocks and didn't find anything.

USENET was certainly a good way to reach a large number of the right
people fast.

	Dave Martindale