16 Dec
2012
16 Dec
'12
2:28 p.m.
On 12/16/2012 04:43 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
http://www.semiconductormuseum.com/Transistors/LectureHall/Camenzind/Camenz…
I'd read that before and Hans' son Peter backs that up. But what was
the thought process behind choosing "555"? Was it the notion of "triple
nickel". The marketing types I knew back then would certainly have
thought that way...
I guess we'll never really know the "story behind the story"
I bet Camenzind had a Tek 555 on (or on a cart near) his bench! ;)
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
How did the
555 name come about?
Signetics had ?500? numbers, and the earlier product I worked
on
was the 565, 566 and 567. It was just arbitrarily chosen. It was
Art Fury (Marketing Manager) who thought the circuit was gonna
sell big who picked the name ?555?.