Raytheon is fishy.

[Pano]

My wife found this cool funny paperweight at a thrift shop today. It's mine now!
This transistor sleeps with the fishes.

 

[cbdb]

Now you need a fish tank to put it in

 

[Dennis Hui]

OK...what transistor is that?

 

[Pano]

I dunno Dennis. Will see if I can figure that out.

 

[Jim the Oldbie]

Maybe if you were to carefully drill 3 holes up through the bottom to access the leads, you could hook that thing up...

 

[anatech]

That ever cool Pano!!!!

 

[JMFahey]

It already came with its own fish tank, fishes and all

..... but ..... but ...... there´s no water in there !!!!!!!

Hey, ever heard of Solid State?

 

[Juergen Knoop]

This transistor sleeps with the fishes.

guess they call it an IC message!

 

[Pano]

Ha ha. Good ones

 

[kevinkr]

I had one of a Raytheon paper weights, a flip-flop card assembly with three or four very early point contact transistors, some resistors and a couple caps. I had it for at least 3 decades, but it seems to have disappeared sometime in the past 20 years or so. Nothing lurking in boxes anymore after 14 years here.

My dad worked for Raytheon for a very short time in the very early 1960s, I assume that is where he got it. It was given to me as a birthday present when I was around 9 or so.

 

[anatech]

Still, very cool!

 

[phase]

Very cool indeed!