[sdiy] Why transistors arent square!

[Graham Atkins]

On 14 Feb 2009, at 22:46, karl dalen wrote:
>
> This cumbersome half-moon shaped packaging are drag!
> If the packages had been square, stacking and leveling to
> cooling or heating surfaces would have been a breeze!

They have to make them like that so that sdiy'ers know which
way to put them on the PCB........Ouch !!! (I'll duck now shall I ?)

L.O.L.

Graham