Recently our team supposed to make a project. Being a group from electronics domain, we intended to work on a hardware project especially related with pure electronics without using any computers. Our actual intention was to work on embedded technology. One of our team members is from a electronics diploma background and hence his knowledge and skills were higher. This was the reason, we decided to take up with a much better project. The main lack we found was that of components which are hard to find in local market. All common components were easily found, but not rare ones. Finally, I found a global market place online for Electronic Parts.
Our project was something which normal people fear to. It used different components and integrated circuits which is hard to find in local markets. Finally, we fulfilled all our requirements online. It was really a very good move that we choose a trusted online vendor and each and every process went smooth. The one we choose was USBid and they supply almost all components from top manufacturers like Intel, AMD, Motorola, Analog Devices etc.
This service made easy our job of searching, they have an easy navigation that made it easy to find obsolete parts catalog and obsolete IC catalog which helped my friend to find the component which is required for our project. I would recommend you the same service if you too are in same situation. You will definitely love to use such services like our batchmates did.

It depends on what exactly you are looking for, I suppose, but for some things eBay is a surprisingly good source for academic electronic parts.
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