At 10:17 AM 4/04/97 -0700, you wrote:
>     Somewhere, sometime, a long time ago, at a job far, far away an ad for
>     a single IC which would convert line voltage to a low current +5V
>     supply with no external components, so it wasn't a buck converter
>     type.  Does anyone know who makes these parts and what the part number
>     is?
>
>     Scott Fink

Seem to remember Linear Technology or Maxim

Rgds

Mike
Perth, Western Australia

Some say there is no magic but, all things begin with thought then it becomes
academic, then some poor slob works out a practical way to implement all that
theory, this is called Engineering - for most people another form of magic.
                                                                       Massen