[AlexW]

The CK722 was my first transistor, sometime in the mid 50s, followed by the 2N107..Wow, I am getting old, but remember some things :(

[TexasRepublic]

My first radio was a 2 -transistor set. It still works.

[Nervous Tick]

>> The CK722 was my first transistor, sometime in the mid 50s, followed by the 2N107

I remember those too! They were still going strong in the mid ‘60s.

I remember a Radio Shack book called “101 electronics projects” (or something to that effect). I found a coupon for it in a magazine in the doctor’s office, and I pestered my mom until she let me mail-order it. It cost 50 cents. I must have been about 8 or thereabouts.

The 2N107 was featured in several projects from that book.

Couple other p/n I bet you recall: 2N301 (”power” transistor), and 1N34 diode.

Even before I got interested in “doing” electronics, my Dad used to work on TVs. He’d put us kids to work cutting parts out of old chassis for his junk box. I loved it. Still have his old tube caddy and some other stuff from that era. My favorite were the mica capacitors with the colored dots on them. I bet I had the resistor and capacitor color code memorized before I was ten.

Now I’m working with 0603 SMT packages, .5mm pitch TSSOP ICs and other stuff that I can’t even see without a magnifying glass.

Time marches on, eh?

FRegards

[NCjim]

I remember 6H6, 6AG7, and other vacuum tubes from my childhood. Interesting that the things we love we remember forever.

Here's a great link for those interested in early radios and their parts:

Antique Radios