As long as we're gumbling here, I'll grumble too.
My bugaboo, is that so many of the old manufacturers went out of business or sold
themselves to somebody else, that it's hard getting data on their parts.
Add to that, that those old data sheets were in books, and when the company discontinued
some of their product lines, they never entered the data sheets into digital form.
Then you've got the product lines that didn't make a profit, so the manufacturer made
some data sheets for their buyers, and never bothered putting the devices in data books.
And don't forget the dozens of up-start semiconductor manufacturers that made a
splash in the pan with their products, and then went out of business within a few years.
Is it any wonder that there is no all-encompassing data base?