19 Dec
2005
19 Dec
'05
4:17 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roy J. Tellason" <rtellason at blazenet.net>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
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Want to get even more obscure? I worked on some machinery a while
back (QUITE
a while back :-) that used some logic parts made by Amperex that
they called
"Norbits" -- these things were HUGE compared to normal DIPs and all
of them
had an odd number of pins, typically 17 though some had other
numbers. I
might even still have some data on those around someplace.
IIRC Norbits were a Philips idea - blocks of epoxy in various colours
depending on the implemented logical function - which was implemented
internally with discretes. Aimed at the market that uses PLCs these
days - a good idea at the time, but not widely used.
DaveB, NZ
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