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Goodbye TO92 bipolars. It's been nice.
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bdunham7:

--- Quote from: magic on January 19, 2021, 12:02:12 pm ---No, he's right. BU/AT are inherited from Fairchild with separate datasheet and made on a different process. The old Motorola part appears to be legitimately gone. Dunno if anyone will miss it, though.

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What is the basis for that statement?  Can you link the 'different datasheets"?  I don't see these as anything other than packaging options. 
jmelson:
Digikey appears to be in a plan to go out of business, or become the next alibaba or Amazon of the electronics world.  I get part life notices for all sorts of stuff I have bought from them saying the part has been obsoleted by the manufacturer.  I go to other sites to confirm, and there is no indication the part is going out of production.  So, it appears Digi-Key is lying, and they just chose to no longer stock that part.  This is really sad, as Digi-Key used to be a great distributor.  I think their plan is to not stock anything, and become a middleman for their "partners".  What with the counterfeit issue, there is NO WAY I'm going to buy parts that way.

Jon
rsjsouza:
Ah, it is similar to Tequipment then. I always found their practice of saying that a product was "discontinued" when in fact they just don't sell them anymore. I hate that.
drussell:

--- Quote from: rfclown on January 19, 2021, 02:10:50 pm ---
--- Quote from: mikeselectricstuff on January 19, 2021, 01:57:16 pm ---Digikey list 127 TO92 NPN bjts, >10K stock on many of them

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I missed it by the newer Digikey search listings.
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You know that, for now, you can turn off the "new, modern search" on digikey in the settings button in the upper right hand corner, right?  Their database is still getting seriously messed up with terrible categorizing on the picklists, etc. and I'm still not sure why they're hell bent on turning into an electronic Amazon also-ran, but at least the old style is still available for now and is still slightly less annoying than the new interface.
drussell:

--- Quote from: rsjsouza on January 20, 2021, 04:38:26 pm ---Ah, it is similar to Tequipment then. I always found their practice of saying that a product was "discontinued" when in fact they just don't sell them anymore. I hate that.
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What is a a distributor that stops stocking something supposed to say other than discontinued?

I suppose it would ideally be nicer to specify "No Longer Stocked" vs "Discontinued by Manufacturer."
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