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Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread

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bd139:
That’s the one. When my parents visited my grandfather in ware I buggered off into the town and browsed the god awful selection of crap they sold.

Unmarked untested transistors and TTL logic it was.

Specmaster:
I think they were one of the first to enter the pre-pak market, Tandy followed suit as well.

tggzzz:

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--- Quote from: Specmaster on May 01, 2018, 02:30:48 pm --- Always had a soft spot for RS and always used them for parts be they electronic, electrical, mechanical or tools where ever I've worked over the years.

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In my formative years RS used to buy up the almost-bad components from major manufacturers, and rebadge them. Hence their opamps' Vos was bimodal, with peaks near +- the components Vosmax.

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Ah yes. That was when they sold databooks and you had to play “guess which OEM part this is” 

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:)


--- Quote ---Edit: anyone remember bi-pak bargain UMUT parts? That was the worst.

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I remember their adverts, but never bought anything from them. Probably a wise decision.

bd139:
Indeed.

Found an ad example:



Annoyingly some of these worked their way back onto the market in the 1980s and ruined some of my earlier attempts at electronics.

Specmaster:
Yep, in those days it was not easy either to identify an unmarked IC, never had the IC tester and identifying equipment that you can get very easily these days.

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