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From: rtw@lzfmd.att.com (Rich Wurth)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics,comp.sys.next,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: books on an optical disk
Summary: Limited MOTOROLA catalog on disk already exists.
Message-ID: <938@lzfmd.att.com>
Date: 30 Nov 88 01:50:56 GMT
References: <1745@dataio.Data-IO.COM> <8544@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>
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In article <8544@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>, wetter@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (Pierce T. Wetter) writes:
> > o	Parts catalogs (take a look at them in an auto supply house, or
> > 	in an EE house).
> > 
>     Even better, how about a complete set of data books. Lets see, I need a
> transistor with the following paramters (blah), Digital Librarian says that
> the Motorola xxxxx, the RCA yyyyy, and the National zzzzz will do the job.
> 
>   That in itself would make the next box worth the money for many companies,
>   
> Note to Motorola: YOU DON"T NEED A NeXT BOX TO DO THIS, any optical drive
> will do. Start this project now! (However, if you do use the next box you can
> transfer all the spiffy graphs and pictures too.)
> 
> Pierce
> -- 
> ____________________________________________________________________________
> You can flame or laud me at:
> wetter@tybalt.caltech.edu or wetter@csvax.caltech.edu or pwetter@caltech.bitnet

They (MOTOROLA) already have a floppy disk for PC-compatibles called
``SPECS IN SECS.''  I got mine unsolicited in the mail a couple of
months ago.  I only glanced at it briefly enough to note that it covers
discretes only, whereas my interests lie almost exclusively in digital
logic parts.  It does support some amount of searching by family/by
parameter/by part number/etc. but I don't recall specifics. 

I think it would be great if they expanded it to include digital logic.
(Now, how fast is this MC10H116, anyway?  Could you hand me that brown
book on the bookshelf?  :-)  )

(I added sci.electronics to the newsgroups, and directed followups
there.)

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