Not recommended for new designs?

[J. Mark Wolf]

Yesterday, I called digi key to get some pic's and gave them 3 or 4 different part numbers (of completely different chips), only to hear not recommended for new design.
Thanks.

Many times, just the suffix is changing, typically do to a new die fab. The 16F876 eventually popped up as "not recommended for new design" as I recall, in favor of the 16F876A, which simply offered additional features or fixed a bug, etc.

[Michael]

Thanks BBarney....that's great. Hate to give up my P16....have 2 of them, one on a pretty nice chassis I made for it.

Ended up getting a bunch of 12F509.

[bbarney]

if it doesn't work for them just ask Nigel about it,he's always upgrading the chips it handles