Were the Good Old Days all that good?

[Toby Paddock]

I would much much rather poke around with a pair of tweezers in a 
pile of unsorted color coded parts than some semi-sorted or 
wrongly sorted parts with tiny little numbers on them. It's kind of 
weird how easy it is to spot those favorite values. Does anyone 
use the colorcode for channel markings and such?

 - -- -  Toby Paddock
http://www.seanet.com/~tpaddock/mus_gear.html
Three Faces of Odyssey
The Visible Minimoog

Juergen wrote:
> 
> I remember I ordered a bag of 1000 unsorted resistors from a company
> called Pollin Electronik (German list members may remember them),
> and then I would use whatever values I'd find in this surprise package.
> Open the bag, spread it out on the floor, select the resistors in groups.
> I had one drawer for each *decade*, i.e. one for 100R to 1k,
> one for 1k to 10k and so on. ...

Magnus wrote
>OoOOOOuuuhhhh!!!! All these early memories come back to me... I recall when
>you took really good care of those 10% precission resistors you could lay your
>hands on...