SMC 2010, 2009 & 3007 dip chips???

From: Richard Erlacher <richard_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Mon Oct 30 22:09:53 2000

Well, the 7730 isn't year-week as some makers do. The technology wasn't far
enough along in '77 to produce the 1010/2010 in 77. Once the WD179x series
became popular, Western and SMC did a lot of trading, Western getting rights
to produce some of SMC's comm devices, and SMC getting the rights to build
179x parts, which were very much in demand. The deals continued between the
two companies, but Western didn't have the 1010 until '82, and didn't start
full-scale production until late that year. The 2010 was on more or less
the same time-table, but there were technical and political problems within
the company that delayed the availability of the 2010. In '77 the ST506
drive wasn't even available yet. They did start and specify a 1010-08 but
I've never seen one.

You'll have to try that part you have in a known-good application just to
see whether it's the same part.

Dick

----- Original Message -----
From: Eric Smith <eric_at_brouhaha.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2000 8:06 PM
Subject: Re: SMC 2010, 2009 & 3007 dip chips???


> > I have a SMC 2010B with a date code of 7736 in Ceramic with gold legs.
Is
> > this a second source of the Western Digital or something different?
>
> Although SMC did second source many Western Digital chips, this one is
> about seven years too early to be the 2010 HDC.
>
>
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