<div dir="ltr"><div>Good reminiscing!</div><div><br></div>In the vein of all this, I'd encourage everyone to check out Dan's Small Parts and Kits:<div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.danssmallpartsandkits.net/">https://www.danssmallpartsandkits.net/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Josh</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jul 19, 2023 at 1:38 PM Pete soper via TriEmbed <<a href="mailto:triembed@triembed.org">triembed@triembed.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p>When I lived in the Boston area in the mid 70s I frequently
visited <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/oskay/4455981283" target="_blank">Poly Paks</a>,
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.<br>
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<p>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. :-) <br>
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<p>Pete<br>
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<div dir="auto">I've bought from a lot over the years...</div>
<a href="https://www.allelectronics.com/" target="_blank">https://www.allelectronics.com/</a><br>
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Scott G. Hall<br>
<a href="mailto:scottghall1@gmail.com" target="_blank">scottghall1@gmail.com</a><br>
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