New Production Germanium Transistors - What's The Scoop?

[spi]

 

[spi]

The only one that looks close is Solid State Inc

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/607986018418151838/

Is that who is making these transistors?

 

[Ginsly]

@spi what transistors are you talking about? Where are you seeing (possibly new production) Ge with that logo?

 

[spi]

@spi what transistors are you talking about? Where are you seeing (possibly new production) Ge with that logo?

these screenshots are from the tubesandmore/cedist/antiqueaudiosupply site

 

[jessenator]

Who's logo is this? is it NTE? (doesn't look like it)
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Synertek?

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[Feral Feline]

I was thinking Synertek at first, as well, but I think Spi is spot in with Solid State Inc.

Thank you both for the links to logo-fest. I've DL'd the chart and made a PDF of the website from both your's and Spi's posts.

I'm wondering the same as Ginsly, but for GE diodes. I see 1N34A for sale on eBay from China. Don't care if they're authentic or anything, just wondering what they are or if they'd work. It's hard to stomach $2 apiece at SBP.

I bought a bag of 1N34A from China when I was still in Hong Kong, they looked like legit black-banded 1N34A but who knows, they could've been Schottky, still — however, given the number of duds mixed in with the bag, I'd like to think they're Ge.

 

[Feral Feline]

Seems System General just took the Solid State logo and modded it slightly.

www.sg.com.tw

 

[jessenator]

That weird faux-cube/triskellion thing they have on that logos page doesn't really cut it at 1990s web resolutions...

 

[Ginsly]

Checked in with AES, this is what they said:

“We only list NOS on brand specific premium options but that doesn't mean that other listings are not NOS. The nonspecific listings could be from a variety of manufacturers. We do update the photos to match the current stock. The closest thing to new production would be items that have been assembled in recent years using NOS materials. If there's a specific transistor you'd like to know more about we can look into it, but generally we get all our transistors from a multitude of vendors.”

I asked which ones might be “assembled in recent years using NOS materials”, we’ll see - very curious about all of this.

 

[PedalBuilder]

Checked in with AES, this is what they said:

“We only list NOS on brand specific premium options but that doesn't mean that other listings are not NOS. The nonspecific listings could be from a variety of manufacturers. We do update the photos to match the current stock. The closest thing to new production would be items that have been assembled in recent years using NOS materials. If there's a specific transistor you'd like to know more about we can look into it, but generally we get all our transistors from a multitude of vendors.”

I asked which ones might be “assembled in recent years using NOS materials”, we’ll see - very curious about all of this.

Wouldn’t surprise me if this was a reference to a company selling relabeled NOS germanium, like the now-defunct NTE used to do.

 

[CheapSuitG]

So any time I see this post pop up, all I can think of is Seinfeld...