24 May
2000
24 May
'00
8:01 p.m.
"Richard Erlacher" <richard(a)idcomm.com> wrote:
I didn't realize that Intel made any 2508's.
I don't think they did. That was TI's part number for the 5V 1K*8 EPROM.
Intel's 5V 1K*8 part was the 2758. Other posts have claimed that an Intel
2758 is a half-bad 2716, but my fuzzy recollection from that era was that
the ones I looked at had substantially different die sizes. For half-bad
parts Intel usually added a suffix to the part number to denote which half
was bad, and I didn't see such a designation on any of the 2758s I used.
My sense is that they called their 5-volt parts
8708's.
Nope, that required the same supplies as the 2708, since it was
really the same part.
TI was the one famous for the numbering screwup made
by assigning an
industry-standard number to parts that didn't meed the industry standard.
Because there *wasn't* an industry standard on the 2K*8 EPROM at the time
when TI and Intel both announced their parts. I think Intel's move to
the single 5V supply caught TI completely by surprise.