10 Nov
2007
10 Nov
'07
4 p.m.
On 10 Nov 2007 at 18:25, Roy J. Tellason wrote:
No, not these days, but back when 20% tolerance
parts were common you'd run
into stuff like that from time to time. Lots of those old wax-coated paper
caps were ".05 MFD" rather than the 0.047uF that you run into these days (or
47nF, for that matter).
One should have quizzed the interviewer on the old-style carbon
resistors--body, end, dot coding...
Cheers,
Chuck