Weird 7410 - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

6 Mar 2002

On Mar 6, 14:52, William Donzelli wrote:
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   I was just
reading a bit on TTL while looking for something else.
 In 1965 a 7400 gate was $20 and Candy bars 5 cents. 
 Probably not 7400 series (earliest 7400 series I have are from late 1968).
...
  There were a number of logic families that were out in
the mid-1960s. Yes,
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  in 1965 I can believe $20 per chip! 
Texas started selling 7400-series TTL in flat-pack packages in October 1964
and in DIP packages in March 1966.  So says my Texas "Designing with TTL
Integrated Circuits" dated 1971, and also TI's history pages.

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