[sdiy] Weird hobby of the week: Chip-collecting!

Oren Leavitt oleavitt at ix.netcom.com
Sat Feb 26 09:52:20 CET 2005


Hi Anthony,

An old 1976 National Semiconductor Linear Data Book that I have lists 
these as:

"LM703L low power drain rf/if amplifier"

I've got some LM703s too.
I can send you a scan if you like.

Oren

anthony wrote:

> 
>>> I don't really get the "collecting-but-not-using"-part...
>>
>>
>> It's the part that means we can sell them our faulty
>> ICs at inflated prices. There is also money to be
>> made by anyone with silk-screening facilities and
>> no scruples...
>>
>>
>> Steve
> 
> 
> Actually this made me think of something. Hopefully there won't be a 
> huge amount of poeple doing this collecting artificially driving up the 
> price of NOS and used but useful parts.
> 
> I remembered soem more that I've 'collected'.
> 
> I have some LM703's which I'm guessing are op-amps. I got them froma 
> Bearcat scanner, but I can find nothing about them online. I just 
> figured they were obsolete and not very useful. The Bearcat box makes a 
> very attractive case for an 8-stage sequencer, btw.
> 
> 



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