OT? Apple Stylewriter problems (longish) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

19 Jan 2002

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  From: Pete Turnbull &lt;pete(a)dunnington.u-net.com&gt;

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 However, it seems like every
time someone in Japan or other some other parts of the Far east designs a
circuit, they design or specify a new transistor for it -- a transistor
that is almost identical to some existing device, but has with some minor,
often trivial, tweak.  I suppose it may save some corporation a fraction of
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 a yen on each of hundreds of thousands of units.  

Please note that each number is produced by a specific manufacturer.  Only
Sanyo makes the 2SC1308K, and only Sony makes the 2SC867A.  The
manufacturer name is in Japanese, in a column on the left side of the entry
(don't have my book handy).

So if Panasonic-Matsushita is desiging a piece of equipment, chances are
that they will initiate a new Matsushita part number rather than buying an
equivalent device from a competitor such as Hitachi or NEC.  Thus the many
equivalent devices.

Glen
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