You Can Have My TIPs When You Pry Them From My Cold, Dead Hands

Posted by samzenpus on Monday August 17, 2015 @04:34PM from the oldie-but-goodie dept.

szczys writes: Should you trash brand new parts developed decades ago and adopt newer models? The argument centers around TIP parts which are a standard type of transistor developed in 1969. This debate started out with a post from Tom Jennings who is known as the creator of Fidonet but works a lot with electronic hardware. Adam Fabio — himself an Electronics Engineer — picked up on the argument for the other side. He attests that if used in the proper application these parts are second to none.

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You Can Have My TIPs When You Pry Them From My Cold, Dead Hands

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