10 Nov
2007
10 Nov
'07
4:14 p.m.
On Saturday 10 November 2007 19:00, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 10 Nov 2007 at 18:25, Roy J. Tellason wrote:
Heh. I do know about those, though it's been a *really* long time since I've
encountered one. I don't know that this guy would've known what I was
talking about, though, he was younger than I am...
--
Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. ?--Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin
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...