On a non dissimilar tangent, I was generating a historical piece on the evolution of decoupling and ran into a memory hole that I was hoping that you could help me with. Back in the mid 80s when we still had dips with power pins on the corners, there was a flat capacitor that would fit under the chips and whose leads would fit into the same holes as the dip power pins, making contact. I used these all the time, but for the life of me can't remember what they were called. Does anyone remember this ancient technology and what it was called? Thanks for the help. Vintage engineers, where are you??? Any other interesting stories or technology from the dark ages would be much appre ciated. ------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from si-list: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: //www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list For help: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field List archives are viewable at: //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list or at our remote archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu