I know... Through Hole is obsolete.
So, the things I predict happen ten years later, and the things I take interest in morph.
No more colors on parts! Dang! This thing wont work for surface mount!
When I first started playing with surface mount I decided to use mini-melf resistors for that very reason; I *liked* color coding.
Stupid f***ing things - tweezers wont pick them up, so you drop them and then they *roll* right off the bench.
-- John Devereux
Any MELF has a magnetic attraction to un-level surfaces. :-)
Beats me why anybody thinks they need such things. I've been reading colors as numbers since I was about 12.
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(Richard Feynman)
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