>
>I have parts marked with RCA, Signetics, Sprague, GE, and other long
>forgotten trade marks. Only another engineer could coo over such mundane
>collectibles.


Chips? I know there are other old-timers on this list, and we didn't
need no steenkin chips. Why we walked barefoot to tech school in the
snow, it was uphill both ways, etc etc.

I was fourteen when the transistor was invented. For the first few
years it was a laboratory curiosity. We designed instrumentation with
vacuum tubes. Then we got our hands on the first commercially
available transistors. My junkbox still has some CK722's and 2N107s.
Only last year I retired my bedside clock from the era of 4-banger
calcs with tiny red bubble LED displays. I built it with a MOSTEK
clock chip, one of the first LSI devices.

Anyone remember Poly-Paks?

Reg

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