Re: gEDA-user: Twibright Labs present I2C2P

[Karel Kulhavy <clock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 07:47:19AM -0800, Daniel J Wisehart wrote:
> Allow me to ask a stupid question: why use through-hole parts where you don't 
> have to, on a new design?

None of the suppliers had 74HC133 in SMD.
The transistors seemd to me tiny to comfortably manipulate.
On capacitors the fact that they are sold without any print.
Polarized caps are unnecessarily expensive in SMD and take roughly the
same area.
The optocouplers aren't available in SMD, at least here.
The connectors the same.
The rest was deliberately made in SMD.

Cl<