DEC Purchase Specifications, particularly 23-000A9-01

On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 4:31 PM Bob Smith <bobsmithofd at gmail.com> wrote: 70ns is the mil temp range rating for the 27S32; the commercial spec is 55 ns. 70ns parts would probably work fine in an M9312, as would any bipolar PROM with the same memory organization and pinout. I expect that 70ns doesn't meed the DEC purchase specification for 23-000A9-01, but unless we turn up a copy of the actual purchase specification, we won't really know. It seems likely that the purchase specification would have required 55ns, as that was a very common "slow" speed grade for bipolar PROMs. Almost all bipolar PROM vendors offered at least one faster speed grade, but they cost more so DEC would only have specified that for designs that needed it, and it would have had a different purchase specification, rather than the common 23-000A9-01.