8 Dec
2007
8 Dec
'07
1:11 p.m.
On Saturday 08 December 2007 02:03, Brent Hilpert wrote:
Another anecdote I ran across a few years ago in the
IEEE AotHoC (which I
wish had kept a ref to), was of an IBM engineer working on one of the first
transistorised designs in the mid-50s (ECL IIRC), telling the story of how
he chose 5 Volts for the logic supply.
I've wondered often how the various supply voltages I run into get chosen...
Care to elaborate on that a bit?
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