On 23 Jan, 18:14, gwatts wrote:
art wrote:

On 23 Jan, 14:49, "Jimmie D" wrote:
"art" wrote in oglegroups.com...

...Part of
snip where we used 5532 op amps in many audio circuits and in one place
as a flip flop so we wouldn't have to stock a 74xx or 40xx just for that
one use. It was easier on the assemblers to have one bin of chips,
better quantity pricing, no sweating running out of one part kept in
smaller quantity, (insert more bean counter stuff...)

Very interesting if you are refering to power resisters used in a
non switching power supply. In my case I have had no experience
of seeing power supplies with excess resisters or with the use of dale
prescision resisters or resisters mounted on a heat sink which
is fortunate for me otherwise I would never have resolved my
particular problem It would appear that I retired just in time
before engineering studies became out of fashion
Happy trails
Art