mick wrote:
On Sun, 04 Nov 2007 20:33:02 +0000, Ian Thompson-Bell wrote:

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Do you remember the Ediswan 'top hat' transistors. Little black things
with a ring round them that made them look like a miniature top hat.



I think I might still have one or two of those... They were common in
early logic gear. You could also get them in a grey, unpainted metal.


I have a tin of old transistors I collected over the years and I have
one in there an XA101.

How about the flat, rectangular "gold" cans? I don't know who made them,
Newmarket, I think. Green & yellow spots indicated AF and red & white
spots indicated RF.


Weren't they the ones used by Clive Sinclair in his matchbox size radio
- Micro Alloy Transistors (MAT) IIRC?

Ian