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Originally Posted by Argus25
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Originally Posted by Maarten
German manufacturers such as ITT/SEL and Grundig started using those drop tantalums from the mid to late 1970's. I think that actually classifies as vintage already.
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Yes you are right. I first started to see bead Tants in European made Audiometers in the mid 1970's. By about 1983 surface mount Tants started to turn up in items like Seagate disk drives, possibly earlier. I first saw a video camera, made with nearly entirely surface mount parts in about 1982 or 83. The JVC GX-88, some of the parts still through hole. Surface mount is old now. But I didn't see the surface mount electro until the late 80's or early 90's and these are the greatest curse of all, yet very popular in modern electronics.
So I guess now, we can call them vintage as the term generally applies to something over 30 years old.
( I also remember those ITT Tants, but they seemed ok..at the time) |
The Thorn 2000 colour TV from 1967 used quite a few bead tants as did many other British colour tellies.
John