[Radio Wrangler]

Aye, I'm familiar with all that. Whenever RS send someone round trying to drum up some more business, they do tend to get beaten up.

If bits for prototyping aren't affordable, then they aren't going to get designed in, are they.

All the distributors went through a phase where they decided that their real customers were the purchasers buying production quantities, so they put max effort into wooing them. All importance was removed from the concept of design engineers wanting data in a form where they can choose between parts easily and where they can buy tiddly components a few at a time for small change. They haven't sussed out the small inconvenience that if they make it hard for the designer, the corporate purchasing people will be looking for different parts from different distributors. Success requires everyone to be able to do their jobs.

Half that code probably says it's lead free and not made of antimatter.

David