Transistor Substitution

[Dave McGuire]

On Jun 10, 2009, at 2:00 PM, Brent Hilpert wrote:
> TMK, only Fairchild made those packages, although they had JEDEC  
> numbers
> (TO-105 and TO-106).
>
> I kind of liked them somehow, perhaps a nostalgia thing. (Never  
> seen them fail
> mechanically, myself.) In all sorts of commercial equipment around  
> the mid-60's
> to 70's. 2N3638 was very popular.

   I got a bag of 2N3638s at a hamfest when I was a kid.  I think  
they're the first transistors I ever did anything fun with, with the  
exception of the 2SA/2SB-somethingorothers in the Radio Shack 65-in-1  
kit.

               -Dave

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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL