[sdiy] Old Motorola parts ID

[harrybissell]

I was thinking ECL as well...  I no longer have my 1970 Motorola
book (stupid me)... but RTL, DTL, early TTL, and ECL were in that book

H^) harry

mirwin at qouest.net wrote:

> Hey John, Jim, Roy, Phil..
>
> Thanks for the replies. The 1975 Motorola Linear databook does not
> mention any of these devices. However, an IC application book by J. Lenk
>  from 1973 mentions that the MC300 and MC304 are Motorola ECL chips...
> so maybe the MC351G (to MC360G inclusive in this batch) are also ECL.
> Didn't realize that ECL went back that far, but Lenk says early RTL
> chips were available in 1960-1961.
> Regards, Mike
> BTW Roy, apparently  there was a huge amount of interest in tunnel
> diodes when they became available, they were the fastest semiconductor
> devices around, but they have some very severe power-handling
> limitations and drive requirements, vacuum tubes still outperformed
> tunnel diodes in microwave applications and transistors soon surpassed
> them at UHF. Tektronix apparently used them to advantage in their scope
> trigger circuits.