29 Jan
2011
29 Jan
'11
12:49 p.m.
On 2011 Jan 29, at 12:30 PM, Eric Smith wrote:
Tony Duell wrote:
I must have been lucky as a kid, I don't think I was ever charged for a
databook at the industrial/commercial component sellers. I think I did
pay for a couple at Radio Shack where they sold Nat Semi reprints.
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In the 1979 Motorola catalog, the 14500 is listed both with "CMOS
Processors" (6805,141000,141200..) and in the standard CMOS 4xxx
SSI/MSI section.
My experience, however, is that manufacturers
didn't always put
chips in
the 'obvious' databooks, possibly make
customers buy several books
to get
all the data sheets they needed.
Despite there being prices printed on the covers of some databooks,
customers didn't buy them. The sales reps and distributors all but
forced them onto customers.
The prices were what other people such as hobbyists paid.