Who collects (reads the mailing list...?) vintage computers

From: Richard Erlacher <richard_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Tue Oct 17 00:28:26 2000

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From: ajp166 <ajp166_at_bellatlantic.net>
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Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 8:27 PM
Subject: Re: Who collects (reads the mailing list...?) vintage computers


> From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
>
<snip>
> If you used it there was a lot of other TTL around it so it was not the
> cheapest way to go and often the flakeyest. A good design with oneshots
worked
> well enough. Later one when people figured out how to do a digital
> oneshot or digital PLL then it got real cheap.
>
> Allison
>
>
The only thing about those days that I remember really clearly is that while
buggering both the boss' wife and his three daughters probably wouldn't get
you fired, using a one-shot certainly would. Not only that, but it would
ensure you never work again. IMHO, saying "a good design with one-shots" is
like saying "a light, bright shade of black." One shots are used to cover
up what you don't know how to do correctly.

Dick
Received on Tue Oct 17 2000 - 00:28:26 BST

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