On Thursday 10 April 2008 14:14, Eric Smith wrote:
Have any of
you guys ever heard of this chip? It's new to me...
It should be in the National Semiconductor 1974 (IIRC) "Logic" databook.
I don't have mine handy, but one could probably get a photocopy at
Halted in Sunnyvale.
He's in Europe. :-)
He did snag that datasheet (as did I) mentioned in the original post, and it
doesn't say much about how the inputs act, which is where the problem is.
From a subsequent post where I'd asked about date
codes:
"The datecodes indicate year 1980.
This chip is appropriate for building a counter with multiplexed LED
display because of the tri-state latched outputs. But I'm a bit
puzzled by the names of input pins. Some are close to what can be
found in more usual counters (74160, etc.), but I'm not sure they
behave the same !"
That's later than I would have thought.
National Semiconductor, Signetics, Motorola, and
probably other vendors
had their own proprietary series of TTL chips before it became apparent
that the 7400 series was going to win.
Yeah, I have some data on that stuff but not very much.
It was a source of considerable confusion that the
Motorola TTL parts were
the MC4000 series, which was completely different from the RCA CD4000 series
CMOS (and its equivalents).
I do know about "MTTL I", "II", and "III" :-) and why it is
that Motorola had
to use 14000 numbers for their versions of CMOS parts. I've never been all
that clear on the exact differences between the series, but then since I've
never run into them anyhow (excepting some MC4044s I have here) it's not been
much of a problem.
Because Motorola was already using 4000 series numbers
for their TTL,
when they added CD4000 equivalent CMOS parts to their product line, they
added a leading one, making it the MC14000 series.
Yup...
I've long wondered how much money one could get
for the MC4040 on eBay:
"rare Motorola 4040 chip" :-)
I don't recall offhand what the MC4040 was. The MC4044 is a bit of an
interesting part, though. Used in some early c64s, in conjunction with
74LS629 if I'm remembering right.
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