Try this http://drjeffsoftware.com/uploads/3/4/7/5/34759878/ic_history_timeline.pdf Looking forward, Al Shinn (Tinker) >=20 > Message: 3 > Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2018 16:50:30 +0100 > From: David C Brown > Subject: [EE} old components > To: "Microcontroller discussion list - Public." > Message-ID: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=3D"UTF-8" >=20 > I am building a digital clock with Nixie tube display for a friend and we > have decided that we will not use any components which were not available > in 1978 (the year we started work together, me as a hardware designer, he= r > as a software engineer) >=20 > My problem is that i cannot remember what CMOS chips were available 40 > years ago. I am fairly sure that the CD4000 series was established by th= en > but cannot remember if the Texax HC74 series had been released. >=20 > Anybody got a really good memory or, even better, old data books? > __________________________________________ > David C Brown > 43 Bings Road > Whaley Bridge > High P >=20 >=20 >=20 --=20 http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .