On Sun, Sep 27, 2020 at 02:39 AM, Dave Wise wrote:
Perhaps you (Raymond) are thinking of TO-105 and TO-106, another early plastic
package using an epoxy-capped ceramic header which put the leads in a circle a
la TO-5 and TO-18, respectively.
I should have explained that I meant the coplanar TO-92 leads came bent that way in some cases, just outside the package. Of course, being European, we mostly used BCxxx and BFxxx (Pro-Electron) devices. None of that 2N3904 etc. stuff...
We encountered very few TO-105/106 devices, mostly Fairchild but they were uncommon and hardly if ever available in component shops. I'm sure most devices that looked like those (ceramic header with epoxy top) were uL 914 RTL dual NOR gates.... - also Fairchild of course. That was 1965-1970...
Raymond
Raymond Domp Frank