18 Dec
2005
18 Dec
'05
9:44 a.m.
On 12/18/2005 at 10:06 AM shoppa_classiccmp at trailing-edge.com wrote:
The ones that come to my mind most immediately are the
Fairchild
9310 and 9316, later known as 74160 and 74161, all massively used
synchronous counters. I also seem to recall part numbers like 40160
as Motorola tried to back-incorporate them into their TTL lineup. (Am
I confused as usual?)
For me, the prototypical "house part goes mainstream" in TTL are the
Signetics 8T9x tristate bus receivers; e.g., 8T97 - 74367. Parts fitting a
real need--and among the first tristate devices in popular use.
Some of the Moto MTTL III 3000-series packages were pin-compatible with
74xx logic, just faster and more power hungry. I like the statement made
in the databook preface that they operate "near the limit of saturated
logic".
Didn't National at one time (I'm too lazy to go riffling through my data
books) have a IC family they called "Damn Fast"?
Cheers,
Chuck