4 Aug
2004
4 Aug
'04
11:19 a.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
Surely I am not the only person who not only keeps every databook I've
ever owned, but also buys old databooks (I think I have a pre-1970
Motorola IC databook somewhere -- back then one book covered all ICs
;-)).
Databooks are _esssential_ if you want to understnad or repair the hardware!
And sometimes a machine's service manual will assume you've got the docs
for an older model.
-tony
It's easier to preserve the manuals -- if
they exist -- though.
Some times you must do more than that even. Alot of the newer
chips are clones of earlyer chips and the doc's are sparce so you must
gp to the orginal docs for quirks and bugs.