IC Data Catalogs

  Hello!

   Sorry if this has already been asked ad naseum, but here goes.

When i was a little, my father used to have these large databooks from
the major ic manufacturs, that listed the specs on hundreds/thousands of
the chips made by that manufacture.

   Does anyone know where I can download these complete chip catalogs.
Today I can only find individual datasheets on the web from places like
alldatasheet.com, or www.datasheet4u.com.  I have an unreliable internet
connection, so I would like to be able to just download a catalog of the
most important / common ic's.  I have tried some of the manufactures
websites, but they seem to want you to just download one sheet, rather
then the whole catalog.

-Thanks for any help / advice you can give.

-Yes I have tried google.

Thanks again!

 "eric"

 ** IC makers stopped printing those kind of books many years ago.

They were normally given away to customers and potential customers.



**  Dream on.

I see a few sites offering to sell used copies of such books from the 80s
and 90s.


....   Phil

 eric wrote:

Not really.
They are all seperate datasheets, it's just easier that way and saves
bandwidth and storage space etc. Only downlod what you need when you need
it.
Smart cookies would be able to write a script to leech an entire site of
every PDF, but that's pretty drastic.
Doesn't help when some manufacturers don't name their PDF files sensibly,
like "AGHS275.PDF" when it's actually a 74HC00 etc. Really annoying.

Before the Web there used to be companies that supplied (usually as a rental
thing) massive CD sets (like hundreds of) of almost every datasheet
imaginable. Well heeled companies would have this in a special corner on
it's own machine and you took your turn at the oracle. Type the number or
parameter into the search engine and it said "Please insert Disk #251" :->


Get that fixed, seriously.
Hard to do serious engineering without a good internet connection.


You could argue there isn't such a thing these days.
Maybe for hobby use still, if so get yourself some old paper databooks. Got
to be people out there still throwing them out.
One for 7400 series, one for 4000 series, and a couple of general analog
ones (National are the classics).
Many of us kept a few of these key databooks when we threw out or gave away
our collection of books when the web and PDF came along.

Jaycar have a smallish collection here, but seperate files as usual:
https://secure.vividcluster.crox.net.au/jaycar2005/semiconductor.asp

Good luck.

Dave.

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 David L. Jones wrote:

People still sell'em on ebay by the looks of it.

Dave.

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 >> of the chips made by that manufacture.


 >bandwidth and storage space etc. Only downlod what you need when you
need

Compartmentalization of large companies has led to the sales
staff (somewhat nontechnical folk) maintaining the datasheets
as web downloads.  So, there's no chapter-on-instrument-amplifiers
book, just a home page and (maybe) a selection guide.

It's "just easier" for the sales folk, it's dreadful for designers.
I print out datasheets and put 'em in some kind of order in
3-ring binders.   And I've got a card catalog with  pinouts
(pull out the appropriate 3x5 cards whenever I want to
wirewrap up a small circuit - saves LOTS of time).

Some kinds of tasks are easier on the new system, but not
many.   And, things that go obsolete VANISH from all data
repositories when the sales force no longer has 'em for sale;
remember those three-terminal current mirrors from TI?
You better remember, they don't show up on searches now!