BigDumbDinosaur wrote:
The one I uploaded was a fresh copy from TI.
I’m pretty sure I grok approximately what’s what now.
I searched exactly my part number, and landed on the ti page for the 2016 datasheet, which lists exactly my part number in the table inside the sheet.
I’m not going to say I know exactly what you did, because I don’t, and you do, but you can tell me if my swag is in the right ballpark: with my statement that I was pretty sure I got it from the ti site, you did a search for max232 (or otherwise something that wasn’t my full part number), like I just tried, landed on the ti.com page for the November 2014 datasheet (which has various not ‘MAX232E’ variations in it), like I just did, saw that sheet still had the old pin names, and therefore (pretty reasonably) thought I probably had a bad sheet still? (Again, swag, because I’m not you and you certainly know)
If somebody reasonably thinks I’m falling and tries to catch me, when I’m not, that’s no sweat.