'What are your favorite funny or odd datasheets?'

What are your favorite funny or odd datasheets?

In issue #163 of Embedded Muse (August 11, 2008), sponsored by Netrino, Jack Ganssle reprinted one of my messages about the plummeting quality of datasheets today. Jack has also requested that you sent him or I your funnest or oddest datasheet find.

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Sick of incomplete and erroneous datasheets? They've been a problem ever since I became an engineer. Bob Paddock was musing about the poor quality of datasheets: I always thought Analog Devices had good quality until today. I looked at several of their data sheets today and all of them were mostly "TBD". Useless. There are better things to spend our collective time on.

This is the worst of the lot on AD's web site today for the ADA4939-1:

"Supply Current (max) 37.699999999999996mA"

http://www.analog.com/en/amplifiers-and-comparators/differential-amplifiers/ada4939-1/products/product.html

I can just hear the production manager screaming "We are going to lose this *REALLY BIG* order if it is not under 38mA!".

Then we have this one from Atmel [for the AVR ATTiny167], who has needed a proof reader for their data sheets for years: "In automotive applications, distributed voltages are very disturbed."

http://www.atmel.com/dyn/resources/prod_documents/doc7728.pdf

What are your favorite funny or odd datasheets?

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