24 Mar
2007
24 Mar
'07
9:12 a.m.
PolyPaks!!! There's a name from the past. What eventually happened to them?
s shumaker
At 08:23 PM 3/23/2007, you wrote:
In early to mid 70's, I remember buying bags of
surplus transistors
from Poly Paks real cheap. Then we wired them into discrete logic
gates and flip-flops to get some rudimentary type of computing
device. It was an arduous process but a challenging one. But then we
saw that TTL chips were getting cheaper at Poly Paks so that fad quickly faded.
=Dan
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>>William Blair wrote:
>>
>>>>>When I was a kid I had a book, I think it was called something like
>>>>>"single transistor projects". As I recall it was full of
lots of
>>>>>simple circuits featuring a single transistor.
>>>>>(or who knows, maybe it was 101 transistor project; I think I was