How are IC's Labeled?
On Sat, 6 Dec 2008 09:58:33 -0800, "RST Engineering \(jw\)"
wrote:
Because I was already taken for an (I)ncandescent Lamp, and I was used
because L (Lamp) had been assigned to Inductor a great long time ago.
I recall lamps being DS.
John
Respectfully disagree, John. I grew up in the era of the #47 pilot lamp
being ubiquitous in radio dial lighting in everything I worked on that
needed backlighting or pilot lights. (I) was the standard; I never once saw
DS.
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DS was used in military equipment and stuff that was documented to ANSI
standards.
JF
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