POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Idle curiosity : Re: Idle curiosity Server Time
7 Sep 2024 09:24:04 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Idle curiosity  
From: Invisible
Date: 18 Aug 2008 08:18:36
Message: <48a9689c$1@news.povray.org>
Stephen wrote:

> TTL is slower and uses more power.
> I once built a clock out of TTL, in the mid 70's it used IIRC 50 amps at 5 Volts
> Vcc. A couple of years later a CMOS clock ran from a PP3 battery

50 amps? Shouldn't that tend to cause wires to melt and so forth?

Hey, isn't CMOS that stuff that breaks if you get static on it?

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