8 Aug
2008
8 Aug
'08
9:39 p.m.
On Friday 08 August 2008 23:55, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 8 Aug 2008 at 21:58, Roy J. Tellason wrote:
I remember a couple or three hobby kits of one sort or another that were RTL
in cans. They came with a board but I'm not remembering the orientation of
the board holes at this point, might've been DIP but we're talking 30+ years
ago so I'm not sure. I do remember that I had to bend the leads,
though. :-)
There were also those "flatpacks" which
I never could figure out. A
precursor to surface mount? Something else?
My first exposure to ICs was largely TO-99 style "cans", followed by
flatpacks. The flatpack stuff that I had was mostly RTL. I didn't
see many DIPs until TTL. I mounted the flatpacks as surface-mount
and did a similar thing with the TO packages, just bending the leads
in an L-shape and soldering them down to the PCB pads. That's the way I did my first IC
boards--single-sided PCB, laid out
with tape and etched. Hooked the pads together with No. 26 magnet
wire.
I didn't know any better, but it worked.
I guess that's what counts, eh?
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