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From: jones@hood (Clark Jones)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Anyone recognize these part numbers?
Summary: careful, misleading
Message-ID: <1989Dec7.230816.3214@sj.ate.slb.com>
Date: 7 Dec 89 23:08:16 GMT
References: <1989Dec1.212852.6807@athena.mit.edu> <6237@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> <10303@ucsd.Edu>
Reply-To: jones@hood.UUCP (Clark Jones)
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In article <10303@ucsd.Edu> brian@ucsd.edu (Brian Kantor) writes:
>In article <1989Dec1.212852.6807@athena.mit.edu>, hacrat@athena.mit.edu (Nathaniel D. Osgood) writes:
>> I'm trying to find four electronic components for a friend;
>> Could anyone on this group tell me what these buggers are?
>> 
>> C2335
>> C4242
>> C3306
>
>Japanese and Taiwan transistors are commonly marked this way; prepend 2S
>to the part number and try looking that up.  I.e., 2SC2335, etc.
>
>It's often the case that you need to know what kind of component the
>device is before you can look it up properly; I've seen a transistor, a
>battery, and a light bulb with the same part number.
>	- Brian

An even more extreme case is "8008", which is either a primitive 8-bit CPU
chip or a power triode with capabilities around 15KW at 175 MHz!  The former
sell for a couple of bucks, if you can find 'em, the latter are several
hundred but are fairly common as a lot of TV stations use them for "finals".

						Clark

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because they are NOT covered by the patent agreement!