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| GreyWoolfe:
My first chip that I physically touched was an AMD 486 chip when I built my first computer instead of patching up hand me downs with hard drives and memory. I paid a fortune for 2-4MB ram chips. That was a good little computer in it's day. The first chip in circuit at ITT Technical Institute was a 555. I used a 556 for a siren/ flashing LED circuit for my first quarter project using blue LED's that cost about $2 USD each (6 of them) and built the circuit into a Ohio State Trouper Interceptor model that had 4 LEDs on the roof, 2 in the headlights and 2 red for the tail lights. |
| Howardlong:
As I remember it back in the mid 70s I was in denial about ICs, it wasn't proper electronics, a bit like these days Lego isn't proper Lego because of all the specially fabricated parts, it's cheating! |
| ludzinc:
555 *AND* 4017 counter. Dick Smith Electronic Dice kit. Best 13th birthday present ever. (Also came with crappy mains cord soldering iron, and moving coil multi-meter). |
| coppice:
1968 in high school. Our physics teacher obtained a quantity of Motorola MC790 series RTL chips in those new fangled plastic 14 and 16 pin DIPs. There were NOR gates, inverters and JK flip-flops. We made some interesting things with those. |
| rx8pilot:
--- Quote from: coppice on May 15, 2015, 02:16:48 am ---1968 in high school. Our physics teacher obtained a quantity of Motorola MC790 series RTL chips in those new fangled plastic 14 and 16 pin DIPs. There were NOR gates, inverters and JK flip-flops. We made some interesting things with those. --- End quote --- Were those the steam powered chips? :-DD |
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