15 May
2006
15 May
'06
4:28 a.m.
From: Perry Lorier [mailto:perry(a)coders.net]
Ah, I remember the good ol' days of doing this myself :) Although documentation wasn't quite as free flowing as it is these days.
Well the internet has made things easier of course but I always found if you gave the manufacturer a call or a polite email asking for a databook they'd send some on their way to you. I haven't done it much in recent years but in the past chipmakers wouldn't even ask for the cost of shipping the books to NZ. I remember Intel's databook for the 8086, it even had a reference computer design in there that looked surprisingly like the original IBM PC. ;) Matt Browne