16 Jun
2015
16 Jun
'15
9:30 a.m.
When repairing machines it is some times hard to find the data sheet for a
particular component.
Sometimes google hasn't been able to find the the data sheet for me.
My father worked in the electronics business for his entire career and kept
a lot of the data books that he received.
I have compiled a list of them, mostly for my self, so that I somewhat
easier would find what I look for.
I publish it here. If you have searched everywhere (bitsavers , google
etc) and not got a decent hit and think that one of the data books in my
fathers archive would help I might be able to assist. No - I am not going
to scan entire books. But a few pages is OK. The latency might be high
since the archive is located 100 km away.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fTfBDLxl40e2iNrbwLv1ZGgIaXvz_toyvfc…
I will add more to the list as time passes. There are quite a big bunch of
data books left to do an inventory on.
/Mattis
16 Jun
16 Jun
11:01 a.m.
Mine too! I just love the old paper books versus PDFs ... and I've got a
pretty decent collection of databooks both that I have picked up second
hand, as well as a pretty large chunk of those that my dad acquired over
the course of his engineering career when he was cleaning them out from his
library ... I don't have quite so many ... probably not more than a hundred
in total ... mostly focused on digital but I've got a little bit of
everything; connectors; discrete components; analog; power; telecom; RF ...
if this sort of thing is useful to people, I'd be happy to pitch in with
the effort here, to cover requests for datasheets that aren't available
from the usual sources. I've got a few that might
be a bit obscure.
Best,
Sean
On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 12:30 PM, Mattis Lind <mattislind at gmail.com> wrote:
When repairing machines it is some times hard to find
the data sheet for a
particular component.
Sometimes google hasn't been able to find the the data sheet for me.
My father worked in the electronics business for his entire career and kept
a lot of the data books that he received.
I have compiled a list of them, mostly for my self, so that I somewhat
easier would find what I look for.
I publish it here. If you have searched everywhere (bitsavers , google
etc) and not got a decent hit and think that one of the data books in my
fathers archive would help I might be able to assist. No - I am not going
to scan entire books. But a few pages is OK. The latency might be high
since the archive is located 100 km away.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fTfBDLxl40e2iNrbwLv1ZGgIaXvz_toyvfc…
I will add more to the list as time passes. There are quite a big bunch of
data books left to do an inventory on.
/Mattis
1:23 p.m.
On 6/16/2015 12:01 PM, Sean Caron wrote:
Mine too! I just love the old paper books versus PDFs
... and I've got a
pretty decent collection of databooks both that I have picked up second
hand, as well as a pretty large chunk of those that my dad acquired over
the course of his engineering career when he was cleaning them out from his
library ... I don't have quite so many ... probably not more than a hundred
in total ... mostly focused on digital but I've got a little bit of
everything; connectors; discrete components; analog; power; telecom; RF ...
if this sort of thing is useful to people, I'd be happy to pitch in with
the effort here, to cover requests for datasheets that aren't available
from the usual sources. I've got a few that might be a bit obscure.
Best,
Sean
I love old books too, but I have no more space in my apartment.
Ben.
9:19 p.m.
Mine too! I just love the old paper books versus PDFs
... and I've got a
So do I. It is a lot easier to filp through a databook than through a collection
of PDFs.
This has 2 uses :
1) If you need to find what a house-numbered part really is, you can quickly
look at possible candidates in the databooks to see if any match
2) It was a lot easier to find new components to design with using the paper
books than the PDFs. I can't seem to get the hang of finding interesting new
devices now.
It is convenient to be able to download datasheets sure. But alas this has led
to the demise of the paper databook, you simply can't buy them any more. Oh well...
FWIW, I must have over 100 databooks here. Mostly mid 1980s - 1990, but a
few earlier.
-tony
17 Jun
17 Jun
11:43 a.m.
Yes! I am totally with you; just being able to flip through the books and
peruse a broad swath of the vendor's product line, has the potential to
stir the creativity in a way that's hard to replicate with discrete PDF
datasheets for each component ... most vendors Web sites are a mess and
it's sometimes hard to get a sense for what all their products exactly are
and how they relate to one another.
Not to mention when at the bench or the keyboard, I can mark pages, flip
back and forth, dog-ear, bookmark to my heart's content without having to
wait (bench utility computer is slow) or change context out of my shell,
text editor or whatnot to fire up Acrobat Reader ... It _is_ nice to have
the ability to Google a random part number and get an ID back 99% of the
time but when I am actually working with the part, yeah, it's so nice to
have paper... When I'm doing a project, most of my schematics start out on
scraps of paper, too :O
I will try to compile a proper index of my own databook holdings and get
them on the Web here soon.
Best,
Sean
On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 12:19 AM, tony duell <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
wrote:
Mine too! I just love the old paper books versus
PDFs ... and I've got a
So do I. It is a lot easier to filp through a databook than through a
collection
of PDFs.
This has 2 uses :
1) If you need to find what a house-numbered part really is, you can
quickly
look at possible candidates in the databooks to see if any match
2) It was a lot easier to find new components to design with using the
paper
books than the PDFs. I can't seem to get the hang of finding interesting
new
devices now.
It is convenient to be able to download datasheets sure. But alas this has
led
to the demise of the paper databook, you simply can't buy them any more.
Oh well...
FWIW, I must have over 100 databooks here. Mostly mid 1980s - 1990, but a
few earlier.
-tony
18 Jun
18 Jun
10:59 a.m.
Yes! I am totally with you; just being able to flip
through the books and
peruse a broad swath of the vendor's product line, has the potential to
Precisely... I haven't a clue what is available now, other than the really common
parts the local suppliers stock. You just can't go to a website and hope to find
what is really available.
[...]
text editor or whatnot to fire up Acrobat Reader ...
It _is_ nice to have
the ability to Google a random part number and get an ID back 99% of the
time but when I am actually working with the part, yeah, it's so nice to
Oh, don't get me wrong. It is useful to be able to find data on the web. When
I have an obscure part it is a lot easier than trying to work out which data book
to buy and where to get it from
Mind you, I don't find google very useful. 99%+ of the hits are companies that
claim to be able to supply the device. Considering the one time I contacted such
a company about an obscure custom IC they asked me what package and how
many pins (for a device that had only ever existed as a 22 pin DIL), I got
very suspicious as to what they would actually be supplying...
I find http://www.datasheetarchive.com/ to be a good first place to look.
But IMHO on-line data sheets should be in adition to paper data books, not
a replacement for them.
I have never found a computer which can display the pages of a .pdf as
fast as I can flip through a book. And no, I don't just mean classic computers ;-)
have paper... When I'm doing a project, most of my
schematics start out on
scraps of paper, too :O
That's all I ever use (well, maybe not scraps...). I call it a 'Paper Aided
Design' system,
aka a 'PAD'.
-tony
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