Al Kossow wrote:
Has anyone ever looked at these parts as Unibus/QBus
transceivers?
They appear to still be in production.
Yup, they are not quite suitable. The bus ports have a maximum tolerable
voltage spec of 2.5V (not 5.5V) which of course will not work on the
UNIBUS (termination is ~3.4V).
I would recommend the Am26S10CN (also still in production in Pb free
DIP) which is a true 5V bus transceiver. The only issue that has been
identified is that the 26S10 has a somewhat higher bus receiver input
threshold (2.0V+/-.25V) than does a legacy 8641 device (1.5V+/-0.2V).
There was a discussion of this on cctech about 6mos back (search UNIBUS
26S10) for hits.
Don North