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First IC you came in contact with?

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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.

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Were those the steam powered chips?  :-DD

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