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Wat is the oldest chip in your parts bin?

dougw
dougw over 3 years ago

I came across some old and famous chips in one of my parts cabinets. Does anybody else keep old chips? and why?

Note that these were pretty expensive when they were purchased, especially the gold plated ceramic chips.

I expect most of these are part numbers that everyone has heard of.

Have you designed with any of these famous chips?

Brownie points if you can figure out the date codes.

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What chips are buried in your archives?

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    jc2048 over 3 years ago

    Here's one of a similar vintage. The carbon-loaded anti-static foam is now crumbling.

    Was that the UART peripheral in their set of chips?

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    This next one is a very curious beast. I think the 1771 was a disc controller, but why was there a painted-over window on the top? Even stranger, there's one underneath, too. Perhaps they were programming their own chips.

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    dougw over 3 years ago in reply to jc2048

    Yes - the ACIA. I also have a bunch of chips in crumbling black anti static foam like what your chip is on.

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    dougw over 3 years ago in reply to jc2048

    Yes - the ACIA. I also have a bunch of chips in crumbling black anti static foam like what your chip is on.

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