[sdiy] Top and Bottom Ten ICs

[Harry Bissell Jr]

That was like really REALLY funny.

Your Blonde roots really show  :^P

H^) harry


--- Scott Stites <scottnoanh at peoplepc.com> wrote:

> 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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