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From: roger@hpnmdla.hp.com (Roger Petersen)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Re: 0.07" IC sockets
Message-ID: <7380023@hpnmdla.hp.com>
Date: 10 Apr 91 05:49:12 GMT
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In sci.electronics, Greg Bell <gbell@sdcc13.ucsd.edu> writes:

| In article <7380021@hpnmdla.hp.com> roger@hpnmdla.hp.com (Roger Petersen) writes:
| >In sci.electronics, Greg Bell <gbell@sdcc13.ucsd.edu> writes:
| >
| >| Lucky me, I need to use a chip with 0.07" pin spacing (instead of
| >| the standard 0.1" dip).  
| >
| >What chip is this?  Sounds goofy.
| >Are you sure it's not a 0.05" pin spacing, like on a surface mount IC?
|
| Nope, its 0.07".  Its TI's TSP53C30.  Called a "slim dip" package, I
| think.  Unfortunately, they don't offer it in a regular DIP package.
| Does that match your def. of "goofy"?!

:-)
OK, maybe not goofy.  More like a "standard" that never caught on.
Sounds like a lot of fun to work with!

I always assumed those dense through hole parts used 0.05" spacing.  But I
never measured one.  Thanks for the info.


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This sounds like a nifty little device!

Roger