Also HEAT.
That thing despite a very heafty noisy fan and cover mods
didn't like heat. FYI: the timing of the oneshots drifts with heating!
This probably explains a lot why I encounter 9602 (and the LS variant) fa=
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often in stuff that's otherwise full of the standard 74xx (or LS) parts.
I remember back in 1978 trying (unsuccessfully) to make an interface boar=
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a dual cassette deck that we had on trial to work with the H11 system I'd=
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built for this company. The fella on the phone warned me to stay away fr=
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the '123 parts for just this sort of reason...
I know sevearal people (including myself) who refuse to teach beginners
about monostables. By the time they know enough to use them correctly
(that is, not to use them when a state machine is more reliable, for
example), they know enough to read up on how to use them.
-tony