2W from a SOT-223 ?

invaluable and likely never ever to be

stuff - when you had still had to

Ask? beg, more like. Here in NZ the component distributors used to be real stingy bastards with databooks. If you were a $100,000,000 company they'd give you boxes of the things; anyone else had to pay, sometimes $50 per book. I used this argument to convince the Intel agents to give me a complete set of databooks in about 1988, rather than make me pay about $600.

Cheers Terry

referring to Jim Williams AN47.....

Do you have a link to that?

Searching for AN47 I found this list of interesting application notes:

I suspect some links are dead (including AN47 unfortunately).

referring to Jim Williams AN47.....

just search app notes for AN47

its quite big though

Cheers Terry

and stuff - when you had still had to

One year - about 1994 - I think I actually had an internet connection then... I wanted some Intel books too.

I phoned them up - the local office is Swindon UK.

They had some of the old sets from the previous year.

I persuaded them that since they'd simply be pulped otherwise maybe they'd like to send me a set. They did too !

Graham