"Roy J. Tellason" wrote to "MIKE ROSS" (19 Dec 02  20:06:17)
 --- on the topic of "DIGITAL CLOCKS"

 RJT> MIKE ROSS wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:
 MR> Oh, just remembered there was a cmos ic a 4566 called an
 MR> "industrial timebase" which consisted of 2 BCD dividers. One was a
 MR> divide by 10 and the other a divide by 5 or 6.

 RJT> Sounds like a handy part to have,  though I don't think I've ever run
 RJT> across that particular number before.  Do you happen to recall who
 RJT> made it?

Motorola made those as the MC14566B. I had experimented with a couple
way back when a build-it magazine article tutorial had discussed them.

 Mike
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