4004 and IC history / was Re: Vintage computer photogallery

[Alexandre Souza]

>> And what's funny is that there now seems to be some stuff out there 
>> that's
>> offering as simple as single gates in a small surface-mount package.
> The first one of those I saw was a single-gate NAND in a 5-pin
> pseudo-SOT-23 package (don't know the proper designation) on a Palm
> Pilot memory board over 10 years ago.  I still have some older Palms
> that might be upgradable, but you need both the RAM chip _and_ an
> extra NAND to fully populate the partially-empty boards.
> No idea where to get just a couple of those these days.  Probably the
> easiest thing is to scrape them off of a Palm SIMM from an old Palm
> with a broken screen.

    Motorola has a whole line. You can find it on farnell, digikey, mouser, 
and all good electronic suppliers :o)