15 Jun
2015
15 Jun
'15
3:11 p.m.
On Jun 15, 2015, at 14:19 , Noel Chiappa <jnc at
mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
I think Tony's point was that someone who's into vintage computers ought to
have a stock of suitable parts for them.
Yes, that'll likely be true once they have been in the hobby for a while. But for
somebody who has gotten into it recently, and otherwise hasn't had reason to touch a
DIP packaged part since the early 1990s (even while being a full-time electrical engineer
and full-time electronics/etc. hobbyist), it can't be taken for granted that they have
a parts drawer full of misc. 74LS parts. I have a vast junkbox, and I regularly order
electronic components both professionally and for my hobby... and I still don't have a
lot of TTL parts on hand.
--
Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net>
http://www.nf6x.net/