[Free] Old Data Books (Australia)

, Memories etc. Date range late 70's to early '90s. I, too, much prefer to have paper datasheets/databooks. It's a lot easier to flip thorugh a databook than try to find what you want on the web. Before the days of 'everything on the web' the semiconductor manufacturers used to send the databooks to companies, universities, etc. Whenerver a new one came in where I was working, I'd read through it, making a mental note of any chips that 'looked interesting'. There doesn't seem to be any way of doing that sort of thing on the websites :-( Anyway, the other reason for keeping old paper databooks is that the web changes. Far too often something I _knew_ was on a particular site is no longer there. Datasheets for chips often disappear when the chip is discontinued, which is not a lot of help when you're trying to fix something made 30 years ago. Yes, I know paper databooks can be lost, damaged, fall apart, etc, but that's not an argument for not _also_ keeping them, alongside web pages,etc. So have I. Into my brain. I think I'll rememebr that one until my dying day. -tony