4004 and IC history / was Re: Vintage computer photogallery

[Holger Veit]

Ethan Dicks said:
> On 10/13/07, Roy J. Tellason <rtellason at verizon.net> wrote
>> 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.
[...]
> 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.

Unnecessary. They are rather common, Farnell, Digikey etc. should have them.
Google for 74LVC1G00 for a single 7400 type NAND, for instance. The series
is labeled "1G", basically. Consequently, there should be also 02, 04, 08,
32, and 86 gates.

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Holger