OT-ish, Museums and MP3s Re: Museum interpretations

[Dave McGuire]

On May 22, 2009, at 12:17 AM, bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca wrote:
>>   Oh good grief.  Pretty much any manufacturer's datasheets will  
>> be fine for parts as standardized as those.  Functionality,  
>> pinouts, DC specs, even timing parameters will be very close if  
>> not identical.  Just google "74LS00 datasheet" or "62256  
>> datasheet" and you'll be fine.
>
> That is why I am using them. :)

   ;)

> Grumbles at the lack of  9 bit wide ram chips ...  No matter how  
> you look at it
> any kind of 18 bit computer has power compared to a 16 bit or less  
> cpu.
> PS.  Now you know what kind of computer I am designing, but this is  
> off topic since
> only 1 off does not count as a classic computer unless it tubes or  
> flip/chips[1] used.

   What sort of density are you looking for?  I've seen some really  
nice 16Kx1 SRAM chips made by Inmos.  Or you could implement a DRAM  
controller in your FPGA and do it that way, with 1-bit-wide DRAM chips.

            -Dave

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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL