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Subject: Re: Resistors

From: sasami@...
Date: 2004-01-21

From: "mbedtom" <tom@...>

>Personally, I'd go from 22 ohms to 2.2 megs. But I must confess I
>did pop for the 5% carbon film assortment from Digi-Key.
<snip>
>That was either a very smart move or something totally
>moronic. I still haven't decided which it was.

You do realise you will still have a lot of these resistors 20 years from
now? I still have a lot of the resistors (in the less popular values) from
the 100 of each I bought back in '81. Mind you, I was out buying
replacements for the more popular values in '81.

Ken
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