Top Ten ICs (was Re: [sdiy] Analog Design Book)

[Colin Hinz]

[tonight's a good night for catching up on old threads]

On Wed, 6 Oct 2004, john mahoney wrote:

> Why I am definitely still a newbie: I don't even *have* a personal
> top ten IC list. :-/

Well, I started messing around with electronics in around 1976-77,
though it was a few years later than I managed to build anything
that was even minimally useful.

I don't have a personal top-ten list, though. So many chips, so
little time! Instead, allow me to pull out an old order form from
a dusty file box and provide to the assembled multitude a list of
my *first ten* chips:

	7404
	7408
	7410
	7402
	7486
	7410
	74S20
	74LS164
	74190
	i4201

Yes, that's right. These were the first ICs I bought, with my own
paper-route money, back in 1979.

> (I knew the 555 would rank highly with most SDIYers, though.)

Funny about that. The first "actually working" circuit I built
used two 555's. Didn't do much, except make a couple of LEDs blink.
But it was *so* cool at the time.

(The 555 isn't on my "first ten" list only because it was out of
stock!!)

- Colin Hinz
  Toronto, Canada