[sdiy] Top and Bottom Ten ICs

[Scott Stites]

Current favorite chips:

PT2399
SSM2164
TL07X
VTL5C3 VTL5C3/2 (not chips but I love'em so much they couldn't go unmentioned)
7555
CD4006
CD4017
CD4015
XR2206
CA3080


I can't think of any chips I dislike, so I'll have to switch to Blonde Mode (you may think I'm already there judging from my top 10 list(?)).

/Blonde mode 

Bottom 10 list of chips.  

Well, I don't remember any numbers, but here goes:

The one that burnt my finger when I switched + and -V that one time only ever.

The one that had the really stinky smoke.

The one that stopped working when I exceeded it's 5V Vcc by 10V.

The one that stopped working altogether for no reason at all (really!).

The one that won't let you touch it unless you're strapped to ground, and I did, and it still worked and then it didn't after 3 months.

The one that lodged in the bottom of my foot at 3AM and made me scream like a girly man.

The one that costs so much and is so rare that I'm afraid to use it and can only stare at it through tear-filmed eyes.

The one that all the schematics show no power hook-ups for, but it does need them...it's just *assumed*.

The one that's all silvery and round and has a lot of legs you don't know which are which and never works.

The one that makes that sound, you know what I mean, the ssszzzzt sound or something like that.  I hate that.

Oh wait - can I put in 11?  I just remembered a number.  My neighbor, this engineering-geek guy that, like, is retired from the military or something, heard I was heavy into designing synthesizers and unloaded a bunch of these 'UA726' transistors on me.  He was all smiles and like patting himself on the back as if he'd really delivered the mother lode or something to me.  Some favor.  Out of all 250 of them, I found only *one* that would run cool.  I had to trash the rest of them (which I suspect he was too lazy to do in the first place).

/blonde mode

Scott

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