[sdiy] TI to buy NatSemi!!!!!

[Paul Perry]

Yeah, I had a fresh engineering grad working for me who had never seen (or, 
I expect, even heard of) a 1% resistor.. he was really thrown by the "extra" 
band..
He did the worst layout I ever saw (using Protel, but with no idea that 
analog wasn't digital).
I kept him for 6 weeks so he could qualify to join the professional 
engineers' society, then he got a job with the Army.. hope it was all 
software..

paul perry Melbourne Australia

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David G. Dixon" > One of the electronic component shops here in 
Vancouver stocks an alarmingly
> complete collection of light blue 1% resistors with five colour bands, 
> which
> are arrayed along one wall of the shop in little baggies (10 for 50c).
> However, the standard values are only represented by the customary tan 5%
> resistors with four colour bands.  If you want 1% resistors in standard
> values, you have to ask at the counter, and they'll rustle them up for you
> from the back.  I personally find this very annoying.  I asked the
> shopkeeper why this was, and he said it was because the students who come 
> in
> to buy parts for their school projects can't read the 1% resistors, so 
> they
> refuse to buy them.  Indeed, he would prefer only to stock the 1% 
> resistors,
> but he has to carry the 5% ones for just this purpose.