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On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 15:33:16 -0000,
Leon Heller wrote
in Msg.
and selection ability.

Digikey, keep doing it right!

Have a look at the Farnell and RS websites (UK):

You've got to be kidding. I find the RS website impossible to use. I
always refer to the printed catalog. Also they want me to register to
access data sheets etc.

Of course it's easy to just punch in a part number and get taken to the
appropriate result. But if you're searching a bit less specific -- say,
for a certain kind of connector you've seen somewhere, everything falls
apart because there's no such thing as a parametric search engine. Turning
tha pages of the paper catalog is much quicker.

--Daniel