I just created this new text file for the AVL.  It's yours to search at
your own risk, that is, anything associated with the vendors and vendor
part numbers might not show up in a search.  That's because this list
shows the Atari part number and description once only, listing vendor
sources on the following lines.  So if you search for an Atari part number
you'll find it with only one vendor, though there could be multiple 
vendors.  If you search for a generic part number (ex: 23128) you'll
find the Atari part number and those vendors with the generic pn as
a part of their vendor part number.  If the generic part number you're
looking for isn't listed in the generic field of the part description
you'll find either nothing, or vendor part numbers only (no Atari pn)
(unless the vendor pn is listed on the same line as the Atari pn and
part description).  You could even come up with something that has
the string you were looking for, but isn't the part you had in mind.

So as long as you're aware of the risks and/or don't care about vendors
at all, this is a much faster way to search for parts, especially since
it finds more than one string in the same time span.  

I almost forget to explain the name of the file.  Since most of us
in engineering don't care about spare parts I left them out of this
list, thus it's called avlno99.txt (99-xxx are spare parts).  If you
do need to look at spare parts, search [avl.avl]avl99.txt.  

(oops, forget should be forgot but I don't want to type all this again.)
That's all unless I think of something else!  Chris

(ps. please pass this on to Carol too, I could copy avlno99.txt to ERNIE.)