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From: max@arches.uucp (Max Hauser)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Old fart's umbrage (was Re: I need a serial ...)
Summary: "Old" TTL indeed
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Date: 26 Mar 88 09:48:13 GMT
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In article <1120@ssc.UUCP> markz@ssc.UUCP (Mark Zenier) writes:
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>... the Fairchild 9368, 9369, 9370 (old! TTL)    ...


I BEG your pardon. The 9300 series are at least MSI, therefore hardly
"old." The older members of Fairchild's CCSL (tm) (two points for 
remembering what that stood for) TTL-DTL families are the 9000 (not 9300)
series, small-scale integration (SSI). 

No, we cannot begin to talk about truly "old" TTL unless we reach at
least to the Texas Instruments 5300/7300 series (that's 3, not 4)
with vertical-PNP input devices (the 5400/7400 came later, of course);
or conceivably the Sylvania SUHL I and II families, though those may
be as recent as 1970 and therefore more or less modern.

A purple plague on these short-sighted notions of history ...

Max Hauser / max@eros.berkeley.edu / ...{!decvax}!ucbvax!eros!max