Qbert Ram Rant

From: Paul Sommers <Paul.Sommers_at_cwo.com.au>
Date: Tue Oct 10 2000 - 00:59:27 EDT

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<P><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial">Gang,</FONT>
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<P><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial">I'm working on a bootleg Qbert PCB and I had to get this out of my system...</FONT>
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<P><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial">What *&amp;%^^&amp;#@ (as Qbert would say) designed the board with 4 - count 'em - 4 different types of ram...</FONT>
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<P><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial">6116</FONT>
<BR><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial">82S09</FONT>
<BR><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial">93442 or 244 or something</FONT>
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<P><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial">and last night I was looking at a hot bank of chips to see they were 74s189. Not recognizing the number I do a search to find they are Bipolar ram chips!!!!!</FONT></P>

<P><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial">This has to be a record!!!!!! </FONT>
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<P><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial">That's all! It's out of my system now!</FONT>
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<P><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial">Now I just have to find a pinout or datasheet.</FONT>
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<P><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial">Cheers</FONT>
<BR><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial">MacMan</FONT>
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