On Saturday 13 October 2007 20:32, Ethan Dicks wrote:
On 10/13/07, Roy J. Tellason <rtellason at
verizon.net> wrote:
On Saturday 13 October 2007 15:40, dwight elvey
wrote:
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4008/9? First I've heard of these at all.
These were but interface chips that took the pmos levels and
convertered then to TTL levels to use with standard RAM, ROM, EPROM and
I/O.
Oh, heck, I'd forgotten about PMOS stuff altogether! :-)
Hmm... PMOS... I know that there are fundamental composition and
voltage differences between NMOS, PMOS, CMOS, HMOS, etc... What makes
it not-compatible with TTL (unlike CMOS, which is easy to interface to
TTL)?
Weird power supplies and logic levels come to mind. Negative with respect to
ground...
I think they used some of that stuff in organs, back when.
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