SMD die

EE July/August 1986 "Alea iacta est" (the die is cast, freely) someone said quite a few years ago, and promptly engaged in sundry military actions that are gen- erally reported as having been decis- ive for global history. Whatever the relative importance of this notorious person"s decision at that time, he is not likely to have employed a SMD die as described here, since he used the verbal form cast rather than a clausal construction (in Latin, of course) to indicate the presence of clock pulses from a Schmitt-trigger gate oscillator, at the relevant input of a Type 4029 binary counter which is preset to state 9 by means of jam (preset) inputs Je . . J3 while its Qe.. .Q2 outputs may represent 1 of 6 pseudo-random states 9 . . .15 after removing one"s fingers from the touch-sensitive contacts between os- cillator and counter clock input. Counter output states 9 . . .15 were chosen rather than 1. . . 6 with the corresponding preset 1, in order that the CO (carry out) could be conn...