[sdiy] Why transistors arent square!

[David G. Dixon]

> > 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 ?)
> 
I still get it wrong with annoying frequency, so... not that funny!