Hello,

@Hypatia's Protege , those could have been used in the time that cars has the positive terminal on the chassis.
It might have been used in old militairy stuff.

Bertus

Hi, Bertus! --Thanks for your insightful reply!

FWIW I encountered said devices in Motorola Mocom-70 transceivers (Negative ground) -- Oddly, all other large-signal BJTs in said units are of NPN polarity

Perhaps, as per vehicular polarity conventions suggested in your post, high-power PNPs were more common (and, hence, less costly) back in 'the day'?

Very best regards
HP

 

While I can't say where they 'place' upon the useful/useless 'index' -- I'm bound to say that among the oddest devices I've encountered are the large RF power BJT's found in certain 60's - 70's Motorola VHF transceivers...
To wit: M9625 (Generic designation = 2N6097)

HP You're always joking abt making necklaces with those PNP SOEs to sell at Hamvention like here! So I say you should make necklace and wear it to Hamvention so @KL7AJ can recogognize you for sure BEO ceramic dust on the cleavage could be nasty though!

 

Please confine your puerile incessant dalliances to one thread or to a PM. Such dissemination should be surreptitious. Thank you.

Did I work in enough smiley faces to show I am being nice?

 

Please confine your puerile incessant dalliances to one thread or to a PM. Such dissemination should be surreptitious. Thank you.

Did I work in enough smiley faces to show I am being nice?

--Emphasis added--

Or, better yet, with the aim of gathering all unadvised, OT rubbish to a single 'tip': the thread linked HERE

As regards 're-purposed' 2N6097s? I dunno?... BeO jewelry could be something of a 'public service' by way of 'career advancement' of many a budding barrister

TTFN
HP

 

--Emphasis added--

Or, better yet, with the aim of gathering all unadvised, OT rubbish to a single 'tip': the thread linked HERE

As regards 're-purposed' 2N6097s? I dunno?... BeO jewelry could be something of a 'public service' by way of 'career advancement' of many a budding barrister

TTFN
HP

And it took me 10 minutes of using a thesaurus phrasing my post in a manner that you would appreciate.

 

And it took me 10 minutes of using a thesaurus phrasing my most in a manner that you would appreciate.

Indeed! I got a charge out of your reply to @Aleph(0) 's post

FWIW 'Unadvised OT rubbish' was with reference to politics and the likes of some of Aleph's posts (e.g. post #82 on this thread)

Very best regards
HP