Canadian chip sellers friendly to hobbiests?

[Lost]

I'm sure this question has come up in the past but a quick search of the site didn't show anything recent so I'm going to risk getting in trouble by asking...

Can anyone recommend a store or website to order parts from, preferably in Canada? There are a few electronics stores in the GTA (Toronto) that sell breadboards, wires, and a few "kits" but I haven't found one that sells the chips I'm looking for.

Right now I am looking (specifically) for:

MAX232 or MAX233 in DIP format (5v)

Either a 5v serial flash chip in DIP format or a simple SD/MMC header I can connect to a solderless breadboard (preferably with a 5v to 3.3v power converter built in (but if not, I might be able to mangle something together).

In general I'm trying to find a place I can reliably go to as my hobby progresses.

[devzone]

try RS Components

http://www.rs-components.com/index.html

[Lost]

devzone wrote:

try RS Components

http://www.rs-components.com/index.html

They look promising.

P.S. It took me about 10 seconds to decode the message in your signature.

[devzone]

Lost wrote:

P.S. It took me about 10 seconds to decode the message in your signature.

Not to much of a loss then

[GARTHWILSON]

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I've been trying to contact you by PM and E-mail but it's not getting through. You have my E-mail address.

I will delete this message later unless a discussion somehow forms out of it.

[DaveK]

Lost wrote:

MAX232 or MAX233 in DIP format (5v)

I get mine for free
You can order them as samples from http://shop.maxim-ic.com/
They also do reset supervisors, battery-backed RAM and RTCs (and a whole bunch of other stuff)