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| fourfathom:
I've got you all beat (except for eti): In the early 1970's I was playing with RTL and DTL logic, hermetic can, probably a Fairchild 903 and similar devices. I didn't know what I was doing, really, I was in my late teens and experimenting at home. But I was born in 1953 and had started in electronics in early grade-school by converting war-surplus radios and radar sets into ham gear, so I was already well on my way to learning how to be an tech, and later an engineer. |
| magic:
I was six years old when it surprised the hell out of me that there is no electronics inside a piano. You know, the mechanical sort they used to have in the 19th century. |
| grouchobyte:
1963. I was living in Montreal Quebec and i remember these puppies were just released and so I bought a bunch and made some cool circuits. Those were the days..... http://semiconductormuseum.com/MuseumStore/MuseumStore_Fairchild_923_Index.htm @grouchobyte |
| chris_leyson:
Wow that was 50 years ago. First IC I ever used was probably Fairchild uA709 in a RTTY demodulator together with 88mH toroids, remember them ?. Ferranti ZN414 came later on, it worked much better than the Silnclair crap. First proper DIL IC project built on Veroboard was a dual slope voltmeter using a GI AY-3-3570, not sure who made the tiny 4 digit 7-seg display, might have been TI. I remember ordering Fairchild 4000 series CMOS from an American distributor because there were no UK distributors, awesome, no standby current. First microcontroller project MC6805E, MCS48 was too expensive. |
| glentek:
Around 1975 when I built a nixie tube clock using 74 series TTL. It cost several weeks pay in parts. |
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