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04/17/09 13:54
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#164696 - FND-70 driver? Luxury!
Responding to: ???'s previous message
I remember making a 7-segment display using decade counters and a whole bunch of discrete diodes to decode the segment drive.

And drawing Karnaugh maps by hand to minimise the number of diodes.

Try telling that to t' youth o' today...

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TopicAuthorDate
16bit number to ascii            01/01/70 00:00      
   Base conversion.            01/01/70 00:00      
      Number Base (Radix) and Place Value            01/01/70 00:00      
      ASCII            01/01/70 00:00      
         Right ... I forgot about that part.            01/01/70 00:00      
            What I'd wonder ...            01/01/70 00:00      
               Is it relevant?            01/01/70 00:00      
                  That's somewhat of a description            01/01/70 00:00      
                     D'oh! You've given it away            01/01/70 00:00      
                        Well ... not quite ...            01/01/70 00:00      
                           That was step 1.            01/01/70 00:00      
      not hard when talking in human language or C...            01/01/70 00:00      
         Irrelevant            01/01/70 00:00      
   Op code?            01/01/70 00:00      
      Ah, yes ... the Fairchild FND-70 driver ...            01/01/70 00:00      
         nybble-to-7-segment encoder            01/01/70 00:00      
            if...            01/01/70 00:00      
               30 years ago            01/01/70 00:00      
            That's a BIG if            01/01/70 00:00      
               Serial output            01/01/70 00:00      
                  That might work in SOME cases ...            01/01/70 00:00      
                     But I'm not that fast            01/01/70 00:00      
                        What about infrequently recurring events?            01/01/70 00:00      
         FND-70 driver? Luxury!            01/01/70 00:00      
            Decoding DTMF            01/01/70 00:00      

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