10 Jun
2009
10 Jun
'09
6:09 p.m.
On Jun 10, 2009, at 2:00 PM, Brent Hilpert wrote:
TMK, only Fairchild made those packages, although they
had JEDEC
numbers
(TO-105 and TO-106).
I kind of liked them somehow, perhaps a nostalgia thing. (Never
seen them fail
mechanically, myself.) In all sorts of commercial equipment around
the mid-60's
to 70's. 2N3638 was very popular.
I got a bag of 2N3638s at a hamfest when I was a kid. I think
they're the first transistors I ever did anything fun with, with the
exception of the 2SA/2SB-somethingorothers in the Radio Shack 65-in-1
kit.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL