Interesting book

[ben franchuk]

William Maddox wrote:
> I recently picked up an interesting book, entitled "The Logic Desgign of 
> Computers: An Introduction", by M. Paul Chinitz.  Mr. Chinitz was 
> Director of Training at Univac from 1953 to 1956, and it shows -- even 
> though this book was published in 1981.  Seriously, the design style in 
> the book is straight out of the 50's and 60's. Although the book makes 
> numerous references to standard TTL logic components, he does just about 
> everything with simple gates and RS flip-flops, and devotes space to 
> such dated topics (for a book of its scope) as 1's complement 
> arithmetic, serial arithmetic, and delay lines.  Proponents of a 
> straightforward fully-synchronous design style based on MSI, like 
> Winkel, Prosser, and Mano, would be horrified to see students taught to 
> gate clocks in 1981.  The book uses a simple 8-bit 1-address 
> architecture as an example, using a multiphase clocking scheme and RS 
> flip-flops with preclear.  All a wonderful throwback to the days when 
> every gate and transistor counted.
> 
> I picked up a copy at a swap meet, misplaced it, ordered another from an 
> internet used bookseller, and then found my original copy.  I thus now 
> have an extra copy of this book. It is available for $5 plus shipping if 
> anyone is interested.
> 
> --Bill

I'll take a copy of the book, but do you have anything else for sale
so I can get all shipped in the same order.
  PS.  I will take some 74F382's  on second thought, since
they have the ripple carry and ovrflow bits. I thinking about
14 pieces.
Ben.