digikey printed catalog

[fat-...@outlook.com]

Hi. Old school guy here.

As you know, Digikey nixed the paper catalog years ago. It was huge. But I miss it. It was a great desk reference and I always learned things but just browsing dead time away (during meetings).

I expect almost no body misses it except me and a few others. I love hard-copy and will take a book over a screen (expect for searching) any day.

For the few here who would like to see it printed once again, what would you, if you would, pay for it?

And, I already know most of you think this is laughable... no need to comment....please. I don't need to be shamed.

[Phil Hobbs]

Newark still has a printed catalogue, so you can get one for free.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs


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160 North State Road #203
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hobbs at electrooptical dot net
http://electrooptical.net

[Don Y]

On 2/28/2015 3:09 PM, fat-...@outlook.com wrote:
> Hi. Old school guy here.
>
> As you know, Digikey nixed the paper catalog years ago. It was huge. But I
> miss it. It was a great desk reference and I always learned things but just
> browsing dead time away (during meetings).
>
> I expect almost no body misses it except me and a few others. I love
> hard-copy and will take a book over a screen (expect for searching) any
> day.

Agreed. OTOH, paper takes up a LOT of space. I had several thousand pounds
of "paper" when I moved here. After some aggressive "pruning", gifting and
scanning, I'm *still* intimidated by the amount that remains!

I've not yet found a "mechanism" with which to comfortably view the
digitized stuff. Some of this has to do with the "feel" of the medium.
Other aspects include convenience, etc. E.g., we become accustomed
to leaving a book open at a particular point, inserting *physical*
bookmarks, etc.

But, I'll hope that something comes along, someday...

> For the few here who would like to see it printed once again, what would
> you, if you would, pay for it?

Well, I can print a page for about a half a cent and in about 5 seconds.
So, 1000 pp for about $5 and 2 hours? The fact that I *haven't* printed
a catalog suggests that it's worth less than that to me.

[bitrex]

fat-...@outlook.com Wrote in message:

I think Allied Electronics still has a print catalog:

http://globenewswire.com/news-release/2014/10/16/673691/10102930/e
n/ALLIED-ELECTRONICS-RELEASES-2015-CATALOG.html?print=1
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[bitrex]

bitrex <bit...@de.lete.earthlink.net> Wrote in message:

https://www.alliedelec.com/customerservice/forms/literature.aspx

[fat-...@outlook.com]

Terrific. I just ordered one. Hope the catalog is a informative as the Digikey publication was. Thank you.

[Tim Wescott]

DigiKey has such a superlative search engine that I never feel the need
for a catalog. For the last several years that I was getting the DigiKey
catalog, I never looked inside.

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www.wescottdesign.com

[Jon Elson]

fat-...@outlook.com wrote:

> Hi. Old school guy here.
>
> As you know, Digikey nixed the paper catalog years ago. It was huge. But
> I miss it. It was a great desk reference and I always learned things but
> just browsing dead time away (during meetings).
>
> I expect almost no body misses it except me and a few others. I love
> hard-copy and will take a book over a screen (expect for searching) any
> day.
>
> For the few here who would like to see it printed once again, what would
> you, if you would, pay for it?

Yup, I miss it too. But, the online search is REALLY good, the best
of all the other outfits. I guess I'd rather they put their effort
into the online search, and keep it amazingly effective.

Jon

[Lasse Langwadt Christensen]

yeh about they only thing I sometimes use a catalog for is, mechanical stuff like connectors, boxes, switches

-Lasse

[Winfield Hill]

Tim Wescott wrote...

I don't agree. If you know almost exactly what you need, it's fine.
But if you know only generally, or if you want to explore competing
companies, etc., it's problematic. I found useful their complete
downloadable catalog, not printed, but browseable page-by-page, all
the same. The latest version I have saved in my computer is 2011 -
this was 2896 pages long, and took up 143 MB. You could start with
a particular product, and explore from there by flipping pages.

I wonder if they created and made available one newer than 2011.


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Thanks,
- Win

[Martin Riddle]

The guys at the office use them. Primarily to raise their monitors to
s comfortable level.

Cheers

[RobertMacy]

You raise good point. To me, there *is* more information in hardcopy than
screen image.

Why? Something about more information when trying to remember an
article/information. I remember where in the book, I saw it, where on the
page, and to some degree, what I was doing and where I was at the time I
saw it. The screen? no idea, just remember I saw it, no idea what folder
it's in, etc etc.

Like the subtle difference between a color photo and a black and white
photo, just more information.

[k...@attt.bizz]

On Sun, 01 Mar 2015 02:43:22 -0700, RobertMacy
<robert...@gmail.com> wrote:

>On Sat, 28 Feb 2015 15:09:01 -0700, <fat-...@outlook.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi. Old school guy here.
>>
>> As you know, Digikey nixed the paper catalog years ago. It was huge.
>> But I miss it. It was a great desk reference and I always learned
>> things but just browsing dead time away (during meetings).
>>
>> I expect almost no body misses it except me and a few others. I love
>> hard-copy and will take a book over a screen (expect for searching) any
>> day.
>>
>> For the few here who would like to see it printed once again, what would
>> you, if you would, pay for it?
>>
>> And, I already know most of you think this is laughable... no need to
>> comment....please. I don't need to be shamed.
>
>You raise good point. To me, there *is* more information in hardcopy than
>screen image.

Not sure it's more, just different. When I pick up a new part, I put
a copy of the datasheet's PDF in a folder and print a copy for the
project binder. The printed copy is easier to read, make notes, and
digest (it's also portable) but the PDF copy is searchable.

>Why? Something about more information when trying to remember an
>article/information. I remember where in the book, I saw it, where on the
>page, and to some degree, what I was doing and where I was at the time I
>saw it. The screen? no idea, just remember I saw it, no idea what folder
>it's in, etc etc.

That's certainly a personal thing but electronic copies are (usually)
easily searchable.

>Like the subtle difference between a color photo and a black and white
>photo, just more information.

Subtle? B&W photographs rely on contrast and texture where color,
well, relies on color to be interesting. I don't find that subtle at
all.

[Robert Baer]

Check! I miss those printed catalogs, both DigiKey and Mouser.
I call and ask for a recent catalog even offering to pay, and they do
not complain, but make noises like "OK".
But do no get a catalog.
Due to size, they are costly to print and then to ship.
But if you can talk them to offer them at a price, GO for it!

[Robert Baer]

But who orders from them, when what one needs is available from
Mouser or DigiKey?

[whit3rd]

On Saturday, February 28, 2015 at 3:48:36 PM UTC-8, Tim Wescott wrote:

> DigiKey has such a superlative search engine that I never feel the need
> for a catalog. For the last several years that I was getting the DigiKey
> catalog, I never looked inside.

If only that were the whole story! For several years, their catalog had all
the (for instance) diodes grouped according to supplier, so there was
a span from page 1273 (Panasonic fast recovery rectifiers) to
page 1443 (Vishay/General Semiconductor fast rectifier) that had
the info you wanted. That's in the US2011 catalog.

No one wants to flip through 170 pages hunting for a candidate part.
If you didn't find what you wanted, it was at the end of a LONG boring
search that the realization hit.