[time-nuts] Distribution amp - Use a video amp unit ?

Mike S mikes at flatsurface.com
Mon Mar 26 12:21:36 UTC 2012


On 3/25/2012 9:54 PM, gary wrote:
> MMBD914 !=1n914.
> 1n914BWTm i.e. using a suffix, is something I haven't seen before, but
> technically
> 1N914BWT != 1n914. That is, in the strict sense, the 1n914 has to be a
> diode in that glass package.

As long as we're being pedantic, you're wrong. What you say is only true 
if it is a JEDEC 1n914 that you're talking about. "1n914" cannot be 
trademarked or copyrighted. A manufacturer is perfectly free to make a 
device in a non-glass package and call it a 1n914, which means it _is_ a 
1n914, as long as they stay away from JEDEC.

Then again, following your lead in being impractically, completely, 
worthlessly pedantic, it's a JEDEC 1N914, not a 1n914. In the strict 
sense, the latter cannot exist under JEDEC.

"No one cares" is probably an understatement.



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