From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jim Choate To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] General question about hosted interfaces In-Reply-To: <003d01c10b16$e8128b40$2248dec2@falken> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 17:01:47 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: c8c3e840-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 You're doing it wrong.... Go to your local courthouse and file a DBA (they are very inexpensive, in Texas free). You may or may not decide to get a tax ID number for the state or feds (depends on if you actually intend to take in money). You take the DBA to your bank and have them note it in your file, this way a check signed to the DBA can be cashed and if somebody does a referal to the bank that will come back positive. You then get business cards printed up, and if you have a 'multiple mailbox answering machine' use it. You want to identify your local wholesalers and distributors (eg Arrow or Active for components, for boards and such you just ask one of the managers at your local sales site) for the manufacturers in your area (you can do this remotely but you'll need to make a few touchie-feelie trips each year to stay in good stead). Make contact with one of the salespersons and keep that contact current. Get on their mailing lists under the DBA. Identify the process whereby you can buy 'engineering sample size' orders (usually this is a money limit or number of components). It's usually a few dozen components or a couple $100 bucks. If you can involve a user group of some sort it helps raise the cash. Once all this is done you can usually get some access to databooks and such much easier. The trick is to look like a legitimate business trying to survive and not some individual hobbyist trying to get a freebie. On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Chris Locke wrote: > > So? What makes you think that someone else can? > > As an individual (not representing a corporation) > I find it extremely difficult to get hold of data sheets. > > I have filled in countless web-forms to register > for the ability to access the 'developer' pages > on a manufacturers site. > > I have yet to gain access to a single one! > > This make it hard for the hobbyist to get involved in > writing drivers. -- ____________________________________________________________________ Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, "Let Tesla be", and all was light. B.A. Behrend The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage@ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------