Somewhere in my archives I have an exceedingly non-PC data sheet for a "Polish Op-amp", including a performance curve for operation as a "female follower". Those were the days... Orin Laney On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 10:47:10 -0600 "Gary Morrell" <gmorrell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Back in the early eighties, I used the National Semi LH0033 and > LH0063 > hybrid wideband amps with nuclear particle counting tubes in X-ray > fluorescence spectrograph equipment. The old National data sheets > for the > LH0033 specified them as "Fast", the LH0063 was specified as "Damn > Fast". > > I know these are in old National Linear data books I have at home, > but these > parts are now long obsolete, and the NS site doesn't seem to have > the data > sheets archived. Too bad, it was non-PC funny stuff. > > Some of the early app notes from Linear Technology had some hidden > gems as > well. > > Gary Morrell > Solidus Technologies, Inc. > Colorado Springs, CO USA > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: si-list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > [mailto:si-list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lee Ritchey > > Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 10:05 AM > > To: Mike Brown; si-list > > Subject: [SI-LIST] Re: Write-only memory > > > > > > I have a copy of that data sheet along with an article > > published in the San > > Jose Mercury News showing a noted Signetics scientist posed > > in Sunnyvale > > with the water tower in the background as his WOM invention! > > Back then we > > took time to have a little fun at our job. > > > > This data sheet is a takeoff on data sheets that Eitel > > McCullock published > > every April 1 about a new vacuum tube they had invented. One > > was the 1Z2Z > > with an interelectrode capacitance of 45 gallons! > > > > Yep, you've got to be pretty old to understand that one! > > > > Lee Ritchey > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > To unsubscribe from si-list: > si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject > field > > or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: > //www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list > > For help: > si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field > > > t technical documents are available at: > http://www.si-list.net > > List archives are viewable at: > //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list > or at our remote archives: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages > Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: > http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu > > > > ____________________________________________________________ Digital Photography - Click Now. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/BLSrjpTDvmRXxD55dP55LN2Lmyf4oDcgJTCrczgyQCefwG0Ih0w9XvcGjWw/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from si-list: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: //www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list For help: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field List technical documents are available at: http://www.si-list.net List archives are viewable at: //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list or at our remote archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu