Hi Everyone,

Just thought I'd share a funny experience from the lab.

We needed a 15-bit counter from parts that we have available to us in =
the lab, so we took two CD4024 7-bit counters and a dual JK Flip flop to =
do the job. =20

Well, we laid them all out on a breadboard, conencted all the power to =
the right places, fired it up and saw that the output from the last of =
the CD4024's was pretty bad.  It was counting correctly and everything =
like that, but only after we put some fairly large capacitance across =
power. =20

Anyway, after a bit of playing around we realized that this was one of =
those breadboards with the split power rails, so we weren't actually =
powering the chip up!  Needless to say, once we gave it power, the =
output seems to be a lot nicer.

The strange part is that the thing was still counting properly, power or =
not!  If only every chip ran like that!

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