Fw: Deck of IBM PLAYING CARDS GOES FOR $325

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Sunday 18 December 2005 02:21 pm, woodelf wrote:
> Allison wrote:
> >I can still find 74h, 74F, 74S, 74hct, 74c, 74hc nevermining what I
> >have on hand.
> >
> >It was interesting, useful and a PAIN.  It sometimes made a huge differnce
> >if you subbed a S04 where there was an LS04.
>
> Stiill 74xx family of stuff!  Well almost now that CMOS has taken over,
> we have a whole lot of custom tristate buffers and latches but not much
> more. Where do you find High Threshold Logic for Industrial Applications.
> What about your aging aircraft like the SST that used 70's componernts?

HTL?  I seem to remember that being in the ECG cross-reference / replacement 
guide...  :-)

Want to get even more obscure?  I worked on some machinery a while back (QUITE 
a while back :-) that used some logic parts made by Amperex that they called 
"Norbits" -- these things were HUGE compared to normal DIPs and all of them 
had an odd number of pins,  typically 17 though some had other numbers.  I 
might even still have some data on those around someplace.

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