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| retrolefty:
For me it was 1970, my first job after serving in the USAF as a teletype repairmen. The job was as a field engineer supporting stock brokerage quote machines. The various aged equipment ranged from transistor logic, RTL, DTL, and TTL chips. I bought a copy of one of Don Lancaster's cookbook to bone up and was off and running in no time. Good memories :-+ |
| bsfeechannel:
In my case, I still have the very IC that entered my life (how dramatic). Back then we used to socket ICs and bend the unused pins under the case. |
| gbaddeley:
I’m a bit over 1/2 way. Played a lot with valves radios too in my teens, & fixed TVs for pocket money. First transistors : OC71 & OC72 germanium. First IC : OM802 (?) similar to 555, and UA709 (older than 741). ca. 1973 |
| JohnPen:
First Phototransistor OC71 with black paint scraped away. Semi equivalent to an OCP71. Those were the days :-+ |
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