Cheap but good op amps

We get BCX71s, nice little PNPs, for $0.018 from Arrow.

John

We have idioms in my language for most situations. I'm probably familiar with the majority of common American expressions though, as with most second language users, I'm less skilled in using them than in understanding them.

One of my joys, as a native English speaker, of learning a foreign language is learning all the idioms. Some sound really dippy, some clarify what the English-language idioms mean, and some are self-explanatory enough that you can use them in English and people think that you're a super-poetic metaphor generator, when all you're really doing is repeating some other culture's cliché.

When my sister was learning Spanish in college she mentioned that it would be next to useless in Mexico -- according to her, Mexican Spanish is very rich in idioms that were apparently transliterated from the local native American populations. If you don't know what the idiom refers to, you'll be left trying to decipher the meaning of a phrase in which each word taken individually makes perfect sense, but which don't mean anything as a collection. Sort of like trying to understand an evasive politician, only more fun.

That's almost 10X what I like to pay for BJTs. Remeber, I give these things away. So it comes out of my pocket and the cheaper they are, the freer I am with them. But I will keep my eyes peeled for a cheap deal on those, too. I'm flush with NPNs, weak right now on PNPs. Looking for a killer deal on some PNP.

Jon

One of the first things I like to ask someone whose native language isn't English is "What do you animals 'say'?" Like, in English, we write "cluck cluck" for a chicken and might say something more like "puk puk puk puk" in a tonal way when actually trying to mimic. But it is really enlightening to "hear" how they hear and see what they put down in writing, as well. They don't usually get that kind of question, either. So it's another way to bring something fresh and fun into a discussion.

Jon

Okay. I see Avnet is sitting on 50+ thousand of them (a couple of cardboard boxes holding a dozen ammo boxes) and sells 1 at 2.45 cents. At 1000, they are only offering 2.1 cents. Might be able to coax the whole lot for a reasonable number enough under a penny to be worthwhile. The worst they can do is say no.

Jon

Well, that didn't work. They want 1.84 cents each at 56k piece qty. Not going there.

Jon

Though well-versed in French... at least reading it, I would read the Paris newspapers while standing in queue at Cafe Casino. But I could rarely understand the cartoons due to the French-specific double entendres. ...Jim Thompson

You are complaining about a transistor that costs 1.8 cents? In a world where a cup of coffee costs $2, and a good hamburger costs $12?

John

Jon,

You could try

Yeah, because I give them away. Last batch I bought was at $0.0028 ea. About 4 to a penny. Those I can pass out like hotcakes at high schools.

Free would be better.

Jon

I guess that might help. I'll take a look.

Thanks, Jon

Yeah. It's getting too good to believe.

I wonder what the real cost is...

RL