help identifying transistor

It took three seconds to find with Google.

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Michael A. Terrell Inscribed thus:

Don't these GG's know how to Google... It seems not. :-(

Sad, isn't it?

"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in news:Q_qdndBt6- MI3oTRnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@earthlink.com:

I can't help thinking that Google's SNR is in terminal decline anyway though..

They will have a fresh influx of idiots in three days, when Cox cable drops their NNTP service. :(

"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in news:-

Can't wait. >:) Mind you, I was thinking of Google's search SNR but it cuts both ways. Talking of cutting both ways, if people who know how to use usenet are displaced to GG, that might actually help.

A lot of the best SNR seems to be had when people who've been in the industry a long time have collected data that the originators later abandon. I don't know how that will go in future, but some might end up in paid-access-only sites on the web, so it's good when people here point out links to it when it appears for free. Some things are getting very hard to find unless we already know where to look. A growing web won't make that any better. I just try to keep a clear idea of what I'm looking for.

I save every datasheet and equipment manual I see a link posted for.

"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in news:_fCdnZSVzKiPT4fRnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@earthlink.com:

I don't.. Maybe I ought to but I usually do it like someone on a beach collecting the ones that look shiny. :) Basically if it looks like I might use the part. If I do use it I keep all I can get, multiple sourced sheets for LM317, LF412, etc.. I like to stay with the smallest range of parts I can get away with, on the principle that the more parts there are, the more are going to be doomed to obsolescence anyway. And Google rarely lets me down entirely at need. If any sheet seemed hard to find I usually keep a copy just because of that, too.

Here's one worth having if you don't already own it. It's a Fairchild Semiconductor 1987 Linear databook:

JW wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

Thanks, as good a kickstart to a serious library as any I've ever seen.

I think I still have my paper copy of that, but thanks. :) I have around 500 databooks in my library.

I've looked for a datasheet for the NEC MC-5800 hybrid IF/RF amplifier for years, but can't find it anywhere. I still have a full carton of them. :(

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Try looking for Motorola datasheets for that number. I _might_ be a clone of a Motorola part.

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