24 Dec
2007
24 Dec
'07
11:08 a.m.
On Dec 24, 2007, at 3:56 AM, ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk wrote:
Only if you don't spend hours looking for the transistors that flew off
the end of your tweezers :-).
Oh, SOT23s are easy to deal with. 01005-size components are the ones
that just disappear without a trace.
Given that there's a limit on the number of
transistors, I don't
see what
advantage using SOT23s would give you.
It'd be easier to assemble. My point is that while SOT23s didn't exist 40
years ago, there is no
real
reason to prohibit them in a project like this. Limit the number of
transistors, sure. Insist on an architecture that could be built 40
years
ago, sure. But should the use of a storage 'scope to debug the thing be
prohibited too, on the grounds that hobbyists 40 yrars ago were lucky
to
have _any_ 'scope? Do you prohibit writing simulators for the
transistorised machine, on the grounds that 40 years ago hobbyists
wouldn't have had anything to run them on?
I'd have to agree.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL