Indicator tubes for transistor logic machines.

[Chuck Guzis]

On 10 Nov 2007 at 18:25, Roy J. Tellason wrote:

> 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...

Cheers,
Chuck