another ebay great

[Dwight K. Elvey]

>From: "Eric Smith" <eric at brouhaha.com>
>
>Dwight wrote:
>>  I just saw someone auctioning a motorola
>> MC4004. I suspect that some will think it is
>> an Intel 4004 but I guess they'll soon
>> find out that it is just a simple cmos part.
>
>Even if they did expect a simple CMOS part, they'll still be
>disappointed, because the MC4004 is a TTL part!
>
>Motorola had a 4000 series of TTL parts before the SN7400 series
>became established.  So when they introduced their equivalent
>of the RCA CD4000 series CMOS, they called it the MC14000 series.
>
>I can't find any reference to a CD4004 at the moment, but if there
>was one, and Motorola made an equivalent, they would have called it
>an MC14004.
>
>I've seen this problem occur more often when someone wants a CD4024
>and gets an MC4024, or vice versa.  The former is seven stage binary
>counter, but the latter is a dual VCO.
>
>Eric
>
>

Yep, my error. I forgot the 14xxx as both you and William
pointed out.
Dwight