[TriEmbed] All Electronics is going out of business!

[Pete soper]

When I lived in the Boston area in the mid 70s I frequently visited Poly 
Paks <https://www.flickr.com/photos/oskay/4455981283>, an easy drive 
from where I lived. If you follow the link check out the lower right 
corner: their terms were even more amazing than their prices. Best 
selection of factory floor sweepings in the east at the time. They're 
long gone but I'm still nostalgic about them and All Electronics was 
certainly an outfit in the same vein. I loved the stuff from All.

Now most folks have very easy access to cheap stuff as well as parts 
with provenance online. With my little biz I was careful to keep the 
floor sweepings strictly segregated from the parts I could trust. But I 
cannot recall more than one or two episodes of untraceable parts failing 
in the past several years. The same could not be said for the Poly Paks 
parts. Many of them were very obviously seconds and testing them before 
soldering if possible was important. For instance noticing your linear 
regulator is smoking hot while trying to power a single 7400 logic chip. 
Sometimes the part of the package just above the IC would go funny and 
you could actually see the magic smoke come out. :-)

Pete


On 7/14/23 22:26, Scott Hall via TriEmbed wrote:
> I've bought from a lot over the years...
> https://www.allelectronics.com/
>
> --
> Scott G. Hall
> scottghall1 at gmail.com
>
> _______________________________________________
> Triangle, NC Embedded Interest Group mailing list
>
> To post message:TriEmbed at triembed.org
> List info:http://mail.triembed.org/mailman/listinfo/triembed_triembed.org
> TriEmbed web site:https://TriEmbed.org
> To unsubscribe, click link and send a blank message:mailto:unsubscribe-TriEmbed at bitser.net?subject=unsubscribe
> Searchable email archive available athttps://www.mail-archive.com/triembed@triembed.org/
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.triembed.org/pipermail/triembed_triembed.org/attachments/20230719/dee04b7c/attachment.htm>