> but texas instruments still sell and manufracture
> those chips (I asked them last friday..)

WHAT ...??? And what did these guys tell ME ?!?
Phone number? Name?

If you got the adress of a distributor still selling these drivers please let me know. Sure. it was me who was looking for them.

By the way:
Is the INES PLCC baby able to generate an interrupt when a pending SRQ is answered by the GPIB bus controller? The DIL version can't do this. "Really corrosive" ! 8}