[sdiy] Equiv of LM3900?

[Magnus Danielson]

From: harry <harrybissell at prodigy.net>
Subject: Re: [sdiy] Equiv of LM3900?
Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2002 22:09:55 -0500

> Magnus Danielson wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > This is a very good reason why I would like to see good datasheets
> > (and similar info which gives insight into the device and its
> > operations) even after end-of-life for a component. You can't
> > fully understand what an engineer thought of unless you have the same
> > information as what was around at the time of the design (preferably
> > more info naturally).
> 
> Which is why the OLD databooks are so important to keep. When the product
> is introduced, it is fully supported (app notes, schematics, etc...) but later
> edition
> data books will have a picture and a price tag... Its become a jelly bean to
> the
> accountants who are weighing the data books for pennies....
> 
> The Internet is boon AND bane... manufacturers are yanking the old data sheets
> down at an alarming rate. Once "I" drop the part... fvck those who may have
> bought it from me in the past and might want to see the info again... so sad !
> 
> H^) harry   (who has LOTS and lots of old data books)

Amen brother!

I guess having 4+ meter of old databooks and another 1 meter of old
catalogs and also old instrument catalogs shows my preference. I would
get more if I only had the space. Thanks to those databooks I can save
myself many many times. Sadly enougth I do not have all the databooks
that where ever published... but maybe that also allows me to actually
live in this house...

Cheers,
Magnus - compact living in a large house