On Apr 30, 2012, at 2:46 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
Motorola also offered a bubble-pack of assorted
milliwatt RTL TO-100
devices as part of their experimenter's kit line. (Fat chance of
that ever happening again!). The little booklet that came with it
was interesting in that perhaps as many linear applications were
described as digital ones.
That's pretty neat! The 74HCU04 datasheet (the Philips/NXP one,
anyway) has an application circuit for it as a "poor man's amp",
running it as an inverting amplifier. The original Nintendo
actually used this as its mixer/line amp stage for the sound
output:
http://nesdev.parodius.com/bbs/viewtopic.php?t=8506
- Dave