Norbits (was Deck of IBM PLAYING CARDS GOES FOR $325)

[Dave Brown]

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From: "Roy J. Tellason" <rtellason at blazenet.net>
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>
> 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.

IIRC Norbits were a Philips idea - blocks of epoxy in various colours 
depending on the implemented logical function - which was implemented 
internally with discretes.  Aimed at the market that uses PLCs these 
days - a good idea at the time, but not widely used.

DaveB, NZ




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