Before today's sleek plastic packages and miniature surface-mount devices, electronics lived in rugged, metallic houses known as TO (Transistor Outline) packages. Spanning the golden decades from the 1950s...

In the fast-paced world of technology, where cutting-edge gadgets dominate the market, it's easy to overlook the beauty and charm of vintage and obsolete electronic components. These hidden gems from the...

What electronics hobbyist (of a certain age :-) ) didn't grow up with them? The Electronics parts stores that decades ago could be found in every self-respecting city. Walls lined with chests of drawers...

Quartz crystals are used as a frequency standard in many vintage (military) radios, spy radio sets, covert radios, and even in modern computers. Over the years, a wide variety of crystals, with varying...

Although ferrite cores do get used to wind baluns, powdered-iron

rings are often more suitable because they are less likely to saturate and get less hot

due to their lower losses.

The power ratings listed...

In recent years a lot of bulb sockets have been created. Here is a nice overview.

Ever since the Chinese are selling goods on eBay and AliExpress, electronic parts have been polluted with fake and inferior parts.
Often casings are created and copied like the original parts but filled...