[COFF] Silicon Manuals Scanned (was: Bell Labs MAC-8 Processor User's Manual Scanned)

[segaloco via COFF]

On Thursday, February 19th, 2026 at 19:31, segaloco via COFF <coff at tuhs.org> wrote:

> Passing along word that I've just scanned and uploaded the Bell
> Laboratories MAC-8 Processor User's Manual:
> 
> https://archive.org/details/mac-8-processor-users-manual
> 
> This CPU is an 8-bit microprocessor designed at Bell Laboratories for
> telecom applications.  The canonical development environment was
> PWB/UNIX running a MAC-8 oriented SGS along with hardware debugging
> provided by the MAC Tutor single-board computer and PLAID debugger.
> Applications include the PROETEL microcomputer used within AT&T for
> e-telemetry applications.
> 
> - Matt G.
> 
> 

So having some motivation to keep scanning things, I threw in the
August, 1965 TI Semiconductor and Components Catalog.  Adjacent to UNIX
and WECo stuff, I've been watching for other formative documents and
milestone literature that isn't currently scanned and pick up stuff like
this sometimes:

https://archive.org/details/ti-semiconductor-and-components-catalog-august-1965

This catalog among other things marks the announcement of the Series 74
TTL family, one of the most well known logic families.  The initial
members are given, establishing some timelines then on when various
74-series members were added.  No datasheets unfortunately, but future
scan is a 54/74 seminar book from the year after which contains the
November, 1965 datasheets for the 54 and 74 families.  Both are listed
as revisions of the August 1965 sheets, so there were datasheets out
by the time this catalog was published.  Either way, I have not
identified datasheet references predating August 1965, although
literature suggests the SN5400 was around by 1964.

Anywho, I am finally starting to chip away at my scan pile, I've got a
few other TI things of this era filling in timelines on introduction of
various TTL ICs as well as some RCA literature in the same vein
concerning the CMOS CD4000 series.  I hope to shed a bit of light on the
very early histories of these ubiquitous logic families and give better
insight as to when individual members and variations in implementation
technology were introduced.

If anyone is aware of any such efforts similar to what TUHS is doing for
UNIX history but the history of components, especially ICs, I'd love to
organize these efforts a little better to build a concise and effective
components history database.

- Matt G.