13 Oct
2007
13 Oct
'07
11:44 a.m.
On Saturday 13 October 2007 10:46, dwight elvey wrote:
Package size was always a dominating cost and defined
many projects.
I've often wondered why it is that 14-pin packages seemed to dominate the
early parts so much. Why they never offered, for example, a dual 2-input
gate package instead of the more common quad, or other combinations like
that. It seemed sometimes that things were altered a bit to fit into those
14-pin packages that they wanted to use...
And I don't lay any claim to having any kind of a clue about what factors
dominated the economics of things back then. :-)
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