Good reminiscing! In the vein of all this, I'd encourage everyone to check out Dan's Small Parts and Kits:
https://www.danssmallpartsandkits.net/ Thanks, Josh On Wed, Jul 19, 2023 at 1:38 PM Pete soper via TriEmbed < triembed@triembed.org> wrote: > When I lived in the Boston area in the mid 70s I frequently visited Poly > Paks <https://www.flickr.com/photos/oskay/4455981283>, an easy drive from > where I lived. If you follow the link check out the lower right corner: > their terms were even more amazing than their prices. Best selection of > factory floor sweepings in the east at the time. They're long gone but I'm > still nostalgic about them and All Electronics was certainly an outfit in > the same vein. I loved the stuff from All. > > Now most folks have very easy access to cheap stuff as well as parts with > provenance online. With my little biz I was careful to keep the floor > sweepings strictly segregated from the parts I could trust. But I cannot > recall more than one or two episodes of untraceable parts failing in the > past several years. The same could not be said for the Poly Paks parts. > Many of them were very obviously seconds and testing them before soldering > if possible was important. For instance noticing your linear regulator is > smoking hot while trying to power a single 7400 logic chip. Sometimes the > part of the package just above the IC would go funny and you could actually > see the magic smoke come out. :-) > > Pete > > > On 7/14/23 22:26, Scott Hall via TriEmbed wrote: > > I've bought from a lot over the years... > https://www.allelectronics.com/ > > -- > Scott G. Hall > scottgha...@gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > Triangle, NC Embedded Interest Group mailing list > > To post message: TriEmbed@triembed.org > List info: http://mail.triembed.org/mailman/listinfo/triembed_triembed.org > TriEmbed web site: https://TriEmbed.org > To unsubscribe, click link and send a blank message: > mailto:unsubscribe-triem...@bitser.net?subject=unsubscribe > <unsubscribe-triem...@bitser.net?subject=unsubscribe> > Searchable email archive available at > https://www.mail-archive.com/triembed@triembed.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > Triangle, NC Embedded Interest Group mailing list > > To post message: TriEmbed@triembed.org > List info: http://mail.triembed.org/mailman/listinfo/triembed_triembed.org > TriEmbed web site: https://TriEmbed.org > To unsubscribe, click link and send a blank message: mailto: > unsubscribe-triem...@bitser.net?subject=unsubscribe > Searchable email archive available at > https://www.mail-archive.com/triembed@triembed.org/ > >
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