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Data sheet culture at these old-line semiconductor companies - ADI, TI, Linear - descends from the fact that you used to hold it in your hand and read it on pap
by jumpingmice 7y ago
Data sheet culture at these old-line semiconductor companies - ADI, TI, Linear - descends from the fact that you used to hold it in your hand and read it on paper. When I was in that field we went to the company library to read datasheets because ISO9001 required the company librarians to record which revision of which part an engineer read at what date and time. And it was partly sales literature because you'd be flipping through a bound volume of ADI's current parts looking for something suitable.
If you really want to get the whole experience then I urge you to print these out. The graphics are high-resolution.
- squarefoot 7y agoThose were also the days when a radio or TV set came with full schematic diagram in the manual, and IC data sheets also contained the full internal schematics of a part rather than just a block diagram or a simplified schematic without parts values.
- jumpingmice 7y agoSounds like you’re just a little older than me :-)
- squarefoot 7y agoPossibly yes, I was just a kid in the mid 70s and have memories of those enormous books filled with TV schematics the repairman had at his shop, also every TV was accompanied by its own one. TV manufacturers kept distributing schematics until mid to late 80s, then stopped. Unfortunately back then scanners and the needed storage were almost science fiction, and the format would have hard to scan anyway due to the huge page sizes, so most of those books are either lost or sold at absurd prices online as vintage.