200 40673s? Really? I am envious in the worst way.
I've been scrounging for them for almost three years and I've only managed to gather fifty or so, which I've allocated out for projects I want to do over the next couple of years.
Indeed I have. I've got quite a lot of stuff stashed at my parents' house still. I won a crate of parts at a trade auction for £20. Was mostly crap including boxes of Eurohm resistors and two sacks of 7 seg LED displays which went for virtually nothing on ebay but that was in there, my current never ending stash of 2n3904's and 1Kg part used bag of Philips BC108's! The annoying thing is I mostly bought it for the 30 odd tubes of 8051's. Turns out they were bloody OTP ones and had been programmed
![Face Palm :palm:](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/xfacepalm.gif.pagespeed.ic.EBDwh1hCfo.png)
I was actually at the auction trying to bag a Fujitsu Primergy for a startup I was working on which failed miserably
![Face Palm :palm:](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/xfacepalm.gif.pagespeed.ic.EBDwh1hCfo.png)
. I didn't win the server
![Laughing :-DD](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/smiley_laughing.gif.pagespeed.ce._hfWAz_QHO.gif)
Edit: I'm going to sell the 40673's when they become worth more than what they are inside. I'm also hawking a ton of ARRL books with designs in them using 40673's as well. I'm the one stop premium ham shop. Here's the outgoing ARRL book pile
![Evil >:D](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/xevil.gif.pagespeed.ic.tdrs7Uj5gu.png)
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(this is incidentally how I pay for my kit)