> From port-alpha-owner-ross=teraflop.com@netbsd.org Thu Oct 29 22:40:36 1998
> To: port-alpha@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: FYI: remaining DEC Multia's are $99[usa]
> Date: Thu, 29 Oct 98 22:38:25 PST
> From: David Seifert <seifert@sequent.com>
>
> > Now I just wish I could find someone with a small quantity of those
> > 74ABT623 parts to fix my dead Multias and make sure the new ones don't
> > die prematurely....  (marshall now has the philips part in stock, but
> > want a minimum order of 114 units, of a total of $199.50[usa], and
> > there's a 42-day lead time because it's back-ordered!)
>
> Have you tried Arrow Electronics?  Their minumum order is US$25 per item.
> (I don't know if they ship to Canada.)
>
> There is also a TI ABT part that should work.  Slightly different part
> number prefix/suffix for package and such.
>
> Somebody's web page (TI I think?) had a list of distributors
> that was very useful.
>
> -Dave
>


We fixed a few Multias here with 74FCT623 parts, they run even cooler than
ABT and are made by more mfrs.

Another thing you might do: if your Multia still runs you could buy some
thermal epoxy and heat sink it...but it will be hard...it's on the bottom
of the card and there isn't much room to work with. A block of thermally
conductive something ... best case: silver, copper, or aluminum ... coated
with thermal grease and wedged between that chip and the bottom of the
case, now that might work.

  --Ross Harvey