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Dec 16, 2017 at 21:33 comment added AnalogKid I vote for a dual diode. I've recovered some from old Sony portable cassette recorders that are very similar. But, the beveled corner does give me pause.
Dec 16, 2017 at 21:03 comment added drtechno Looks like a tapped capacitor.
Nov 18, 2016 at 11:14 answer added Spehro 'speff' Pefhany timeline score: 1
Nov 18, 2016 at 5:37 comment added wbeaty P-B, Potter-Brumfield? So maybe a reed switch. Or a surge-suppressor, to go across a relay coil.
Nov 18, 2016 at 2:19 answer added Michael Karas timeline score: 0
Nov 18, 2016 at 0:43 comment added D.A.S. resembles a part I remember in a 1966 radio from Japan but in house part numbers were common back then in the US
Nov 18, 2016 at 0:42 comment added Bradman175 Maybe you should look at the computer's circuitry and try to guess what it is.
Nov 18, 2016 at 0:22 answer added Marcus Müller timeline score: 1
Nov 18, 2016 at 0:16 comment added meatydude The top-hole is rectangular and there is a diag corner (notch) along the back right edge.
Nov 18, 2016 at 0:11 comment added Marcus Müller three pins, hole where something small was epoxyd behind? Probably an early commercial transistor.
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Nov 18, 2016 at 0:03 history asked meatydude CC BY-SA 3.0