Stewart Pinkerton wrote:
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 06:20:21 GMT, "Spiderant"
wrote:



He dug his hands into this massive crate
filled with resistors plucked over the years and, reading the colour codes
off of the resistors as if they were written in plain English,


Yup, most of us old hands can do that. Yellow violet orange was always
instantly recognised in vinyl days! :-)


what does a 47 kOhm resistor have to do with vinyl?