max@arches.uucp (Max Hauser) (03/26/88)
In article <1120@ssc.UUCP> markz@ssc.UUCP (Mark Zenier) writes: > >... the Fairchild 9368, 9369, 9370 (old! TTL) ... I BEG your pardon. The 9300 series are at least MSI, therefore hardly "old." The older members of Fairchild's CCSL (tm) (two points for remembering what that stood for) TTL-DTL families are the 9000 (not 9300) series, small-scale integration (SSI). No, we cannot begin to talk about truly "old" TTL unless we reach at least to the Texas Instruments 5300/7300 series (that's 3, not 4) with vertical-PNP input devices (the 5400/7400 came later, of course); or conceivably the Sylvania SUHL I and II families, though those may be as recent as 1970 and therefore more or less modern. A purple plague on these short-sighted notions of history ... Max Hauser / max@eros.berkeley.edu / ...{!decvax}!ucbvax!eros!max