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Originally Posted by nutteronthebus
My Dad worked at Ferranti's and got me one of the pre production ones in the early 1970's ( I was still at school) I built a matchbox radio with it
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Co-incidence there then! I was a supervisor in the pre-production assembly area at Gem Mill in those days. We assembled a load of ZN414s for the "Evaluation" department to test. I remember being amazed at the claimed performance of the one chip radio. We did a lot of other stuff then, including various ULAs and street light controller/timers that would work from the mains with just a series resistor to drop the voltage.
Bill