Tony are you talking about the old schul logic?
ed sharpe
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Duell" <ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2004 9:45 PM
Subject: Re: Iomec disc drive?
> > The DTL already tripped me up once. I had a J/K flip flop with both Q
and
> > -Q low. Turns out -Q was wired with the output of another gate as an
> > apparent ECO (wasn't on the schematic). Sigh. At least with TTL you
have
> > the clue of the part being open-collector to help you realize someone
did
> > that. 8^)
>
> Years ago I was working on a thing called a 'Solatron DTU', which was
> basically a data logger add-on for a DVM (it had a 20 channel input
> multiplexer, a real time clock, and output boards for a Facit 4070 punch
> and an ASR33 IIRC). Anyway, it wa all DTL inside.
>
> I found a (genuinely) dead JK flip-flop. Found the pinouts from the
> schematics (which fortunately I have), and thought I'd found a
> pin-compatible TTL replacement. Popped it in, and the darn thing still
> didn't work. No, it wasn't a wire-AND connection... It turns out that the
> DTL and TTL chips have the same pinout _except_ that Q and Q/ are swapped
> round, and that was easy to miss when looking at the databooks.....
>
> -tony
>
>
>
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