MERRY CHRISTMAS everyone !!!What do you mean it's not Xmas ?! Of course it is ! Look what I just received !
... It's from a German Xmas father by the name of ch_scr , thanks Christian !
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Got the old TTL PROMs... and when he said he had a whole bag of them, he wasn't lying, look at that mountain of them !
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No don't worry about ESD... it's just old TTL, the chips couldn't care less...
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... but I got a lot more than that, look !
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Lots of marvelous vintage stuff... I am in heaven.
- Big ass stud diodes, to augment my inventory.
- TO3 Germanium transistors, for my old hollow state restorations
- Lots of SIL and DIL resistor arrays including some in beautiful white CERDIP packages
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- A few more vintage CERDIP packages, grey and gold, love all these things !
- A bunch of random / unfamiliar plastic DIL packages of all sizes, that I will have to Google but... ONE OF THEM immediately caught my eye !
It's got TEN pins ! I have never seen, nor even knew existed a 10 pin variant of the DIL packages ! Did you ??
- Some 7 segment LEDs displays including x4 truly remarkable ones !
Look at these bad boys.... part number " VQB 76-1 ". DIP package, but made out of metal, with a glass red tinted front.
Military stuff from old Eastern Germany. It's top secret so there is no data sheet for them to be found anywhere it seems.... all there is to be found online, granted it's all that you really need, is a little diagram showing the pinout ! And even just that is quite special, never seen that before in a 7 segment display : there is not a common anode for all the segments... no. There are THREE common anodes !
The 7 segments are split between those 3 anodes. So one particular anode is connected to only some of the segments not all. Weird... maybe they had some problem "routing" the anode tracks on the die ?!
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But their coolness doesn't end there... it's not your regular 7 segment display... each segment is made out of 2 little segments... and each of those is made out of an array of a 2x3 tiny rectangular segments !
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Look at the beautiful microscope pictures this chap made of these displays !
https://www.richis-lab.de/Opto11.htmI have 4 of those, so I could make a clock maybe !
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OK no... it's not very original of an idea... better use them in some home made little TE gizmo !
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There is also some not so vintage but still cool stuff :
- x10 ATmega8 MCU's, in an SMD square package.... added to the big mega128 from Zoli, I have now all I need to suit small and larger projects alike, thanks chaps
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- x10 PROMs but more modern and bigger ! M27C1001 = 128KB chips, in a square PLCC package... I can make one hell of a look-up table or bitmap storage with those !
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- a bunch of cool mini cooling fans, some radial some "squirrel" cage type, all of them wrapped in a super sexy rubber mantel so to speak, hmmm.... where is my whip !
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I don't care if it's not December 25th... for me right now, it IS Xmas !
Thanks Christian !
Now I have a lot of component googling and sorting and organizing to do over the next few days
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