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First IC you came in contact with?
Blofeld:
Post the first IC that you came (conciously) in contact with. Either using it in a circuit, or (in case it was a microprocessor or -controller) programming it in assembly. I guess it would be boring to talk about an x86 that just executed the stuff you programmed in a high-level language.
In my case it was the LM324. It was sitting on a socket (as can be seen in the pic) as part of the Kosmos E200 electronics kit (year was 1980).
mikeselectricstuff:
LM3909 LED flasher. This was back when LEDs were cool, flashing ones more so, especially from a 1.5v battery!
niflheimer:
555 timer.
Mechanical Menace:
I can't remember if I became intimate with the 6502 or Z80 first, though at a guess I'd say the 6502. The one I knew best and can remember most nowadays though is the 68000.
EDIT: The 68000 was the first thing I ever took a soldering iron to too...
technix:
TA7642 single chip AM receiver/amplifier. Although that chip is in TO-92 package hence does not look like one.
The first IC-shaped chip is 74LS00 and LM358 from a kit I owned in primary school.
Then in college I am greeted with the antithesis of TA7642 packaging: IRF7401, which is a single MOSFET in a chip-like SO-8 package.
Nope I remembered the first chip I ever came in physical contact with: Intel i486DX. Ceramic PGA with a gold-colored cap and gold plated pins (ouchie)
If the chip survives to this day I will try to design a board embedded style with that as its brain and boot a Linux kernel off it.
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