Semi-OT: IDE & SATA to USB "dongles"

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Friday 02 June 2006 05:48 pm, Chuck Guzis wrote:
> On 6/2/2006 at 1:08 PM Roy J. Tellason wrote:
> >Is that stuff pretty much totally gone,  then?  My last ECG book (not
> >recent)
> >still listed it,  I've asked NTE to send me some literature but it hasn't
> >arrived yet and I don't know if they support it as well,  or if it's not
> >included in their lineup...
>
> All gone.  If you run some MHTL part numbers, say, MC660* by the NTE
> cross-reference at:
>
> http://www.nteinc.com/
>
> they all come up with "NTEOBS-NLA"; i.e. NTE obsolete, no longer available.

Bummer.  But then,  I don't remember the last time I ran into any of that 
stuff.

>  I wonder if 4000 series CMOS might provide some of the functionality at
> slower speeds...

I don't get the impression that speed is going to be a major issue there,  
it's more likely that drive current capabiilty or some other aspect of it is 
going to be a problem.

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