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Why don't they visually update more datasheets ?

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schmitt trigger:
As others have already mentioned, these components are below commodity status. No one is becoming rich selling them. Well, perhaps the exception is Rochester Electronics.

No money made? No time and effort will be spent on those devices. I am surprised they are still being manufactured by major-league semiconductor companies. These are the epitome of aging cash cows.

wraper:
It's bad that these datasheets are not searchable by keywords. On other hand it's good they are still old versions, as I've seen plenty of times new versions of datasheets remove variants of part numbers/suffixes no longer produced as if they never existed and older datasheet is nowhere to be found.

james_s:
There's no profit in drafting new datasheets for decades old parts that are used primarily for replacement purposes. I doubt they want to encourage anyone to use those old parts, likely they would prefer to discontinue them entirely but keep producing them as long as people are still buying them.

tooki:

--- Quote from: wraper on March 14, 2023, 07:11:21 pm ---It's bad that these datasheets are not searchable by keywords. On other hand it's good they are still old versions, as I've seen plenty of times new versions of datasheets remove variants of part numbers/suffixes no longer produced as if they never existed and older datasheet is nowhere to be found.

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They often are. You can also find the entire old databooks on archive.org, and they’re almost invariably OCRed and thus searchable.

PwrElectronics:
I must have first seen this 15 or more years ago.  Downloaded a pdf and it was a miserable photocopy of an old databook.  The pages were even crooked.  I imagined some poor underpaid intern locked in the copy room with a big stack of old paperback hard copies.

At the time, I was thinking I may have the real printed databook in my home library collection and that would be easier to read.

A couple years ago I got a chance to feel even older.  A coworker a little older than me and I were talking about something and he related a recent conversation with a junior engineer who was shocked/surprised to learn there used to be printed databooks before the internet.

Not sure what that person thought happened before the internet....

There was a short period there when CDs and later flash drives were in use but once internet became pretty universal those disappeared.

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