5 Nov
2006
5 Nov
'06
2:30 a.m.
On Sat, 4 Nov 2006, David Griffith wrote:
My favorite were the 18"x18"x12" brown boxes several of the store managers
would fill up with discontinued/overstock/open packages of components that
they would save for me and sell to me for $5-$10 :)
-Toth
On Sat, 4 Nov 2006, Chuck Guzis wrote:
When ICs were
very dear, PP wasn't such a bad deal, even if they
offered mostly floor sweepings. I was surprised at how many ICs in
one of their assortments didn't even have plating on the pins.
But I last bought from PP when RTL and DTL were all the rage.
Does anyone remember the Radio Shack Surprise Packages?