From: mblack@pubnix.net   
      
   On Mon, 10 Dec 2018, Phil Hobbs wrote:   
      
      
   >> Poly packs was a joke, and rip-off.  They advertised "too many to   
   >> test, you test em."  Somebody had to have tested them because in a   
   >> pack of 100 you might find 5 functioning transistors, and those   
   >> probably had high leakage.   
   >>   
   >   
   > I remember when Digi-Key and Poly Paks both advertised in the back of   
   > Electronics Illustrated, selling apparently the same sorts of stuff.   
   >   
   I don't think so.  Poly Paks was around from the early sixties, I think   
   from reading ads it had a different name to begin with, and were selling   
   surplus, even in the seventies they'd have stereo amplifiers boards and   
   calculator boards that obviously had been surplus from manufacturers.   
      
   Digi-key started by selling a digital keyer for morse code, and then added   
   some parts that they sold, eventually getting bigger and bigger.  They   
   always seemed to be selling new parts, first a limited selection to   
   hobbyists, then as that did well broadening the line, yet still seeming to   
   be fore hobbyists, and then somewhere along the way they got big.   
      
      Michael   
      
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