On 2010 Aug 14, at 10:51 PM, David Griffith wrote:
  I'm playing around with an old gizmo that calls
for mps-u05 and
 mps-u55 transistors.  They're obsolete, but easy enough to find on
 Ebay.  I would rather use something more modern, particularly because
 these are in a power supply.  Can someone suggest substitutes in a
 TO-220 case?  I'm not coming up with anything satisfying with Mouser's
 select-o-matic.
 
First thing that comes to mind for general-purpose use are the TO-220
variants of the venerable NPN 2N3055 (originally TO-3 package):
   NPN: MJE3055T
   PNP: MJE2955T
The Motorola datasheet here covers both of them:
   
http://www.datasheetcatalog.com/datasheets_pdf/M/J/E/3/MJE3055.shtml
To be honest, I haven't actually bought either of these in ages, I
generally have enough surplus to scavenge from, so I don't know what
current prices are. They might be a little over-rated relative to the
05/55, so there might be something just as common and cheaper out
there.