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Article #508Cheep dates
From: lan... Landon Dyer
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1989 05:35
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1989 05:35
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This is short. Once upon a time, in the late 70's, a newly-constructed board in a kit computer of mine wouldn't work. After a week of frustration (my test equipment was little above "stone knives and bear-skins"), I mailed the board to the kit manufacturer. Two weeks later, the board came back -- no charge for the fix. Two of the chips, which should have been 7420s, were really 7474s in disguise, with "7420" being some kind of date code. It struck me then that 1974 must have been a LOUSY year for TTL... (Everyone out there with a WORKING Digital Group system, raise their hand!) -- ----------------------------------------- "Mmmph! Urghurmph! Grugmph!" Landon Dyer, Apple Computer, Inc. "What's he trying to say?" Development Systems Group (MPW / DSG) "I dunno -- there's a lawyer NOT THE VIEWS OF APPLE COMPUTER crammed in his mouth."
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!snorkelwacker!apple!landon From: lan...@Apple.COM (Landon Dyer) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Cheep dates Message-ID: <37385@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 19 Dec 89 05:35:19 GMT Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA Lines: 23 Posted: Tue Dec 19 06:35:19 1989 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit