One thing always puzzled me is why Tek insisted with those crappy carbon composite resistors for so
long.
Allen-Bradley stopped making them in the early '93. Caused us no end of grief at Oxford Instruments
(where I worked at that time), where we used them as low-cost cryogenic temperature sensors, needing
several thousand of a particular value each year.
When AB discontinued them, we bought up as much global stock as we could get our paws on. Given that
they must eventually have run out by now, I have no idea what they currently use.
Craig
