Reginald Neale wrote:

> >
> >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?

Remember?

I used to be a VERY regular visitor and customer.
I liked the attitude in the store.
They let me pre-test the stuff I wanted and supplied a drum for the parts
I determined were bad.  (Which they sent to you mail order folks.)


>
>
> Reg
>
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