[sdiy] Repl. parts history...the "W" I asked about some time ago

[Bob Weigel]

I just got another bucket of old parts in here.  A lot of TV stuff (what 
is an EGC1059?  A TO3 with 14 pins!  Wow.  That one's a great showpiece 
if nothing else.)  And some old Ge transistors and stuff.  I have a 
pretty good sized EGC/NTE collection now. DOES ANYONE KNOW what the 
legalities are for moving these parts when you aren't an authorized 
distributor?  It's strange I see absolutely NO hits for a lot of these 
parts and it makes me wonder. Seemed NTE was fairly controlling of their 
rights or something years back. 

 There were a lot of a couple companies I hadn't seen packaging for:

One was the "W" I'd seen on a lot of the parts I got from the previous 
buyout where the guy bagged everything.   "Elmira" is the other one or 
"ELM" as they prefix their numbers; another NTE system replacement part.

The "W" is "World Wide Component Distributors".  Also I see, on the only 
google hit...New Jersey Semi-conductor Distribtors.  They also use the 
NTE numbering. I had omoyos;;u seen a few parts blow and wondered if 
they were just some kind of weird remark that wasn't up to snuff but 
haven't had problems other times I've tried them so I started using them 
again.