2N2/256-BSCP

[Dave McGuire]

On Dec 24, 2007, at 3:56 AM, ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk wrote:
>>> Given that there's a limit on the number of transistors, I don't
>>> see what
>>> advantage using SOT23s would give you.
>>
>>    It'd be easier to assemble.
>
> Only if you don't spend hours looking for the transistors that flew off
> the end of your tweezers :-).

   Oh, SOT23s are easy to deal with.  01005-size components are the ones 
that just disappear without a trace.

> My point is that while SOT23s didn't exist 40 years ago, there is no 
> real
> reason to prohibit them in a project like this. Limit the number of
> transistors, sure. Insist on an architecture that could be built 40 
> years
> ago, sure. But should the use of a storage 'scope to debug the thing be
> prohibited too, on the grounds that hobbyists 40 yrars ago were lucky 
> to
> have _any_ 'scope? Do you prohibit writing simulators for the
> transistorised machine, on the grounds that 40 years ago hobbyists
> wouldn't have had anything to run them on?

   I'd have to agree.

           -Dave

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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL