X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f
X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com
X-Original-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=sendgrid.net; 
	h=subject:to:references:from:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; 
	s=smtpapi; bh=EQBGgLCyankma5KY8p2pNeP3xw0=; b=tzMZCjo/dFd59DM34D
	Hh1HLVpeER9aYpnt3MqP2V26FrYzfFm3ydfrbPOBJQWQjcGuAvBQqaHeuad16c06
	Z18U9ZqvQlYquLfJ1DYIeAyd0Vj5ndohhT5V2z0MgqfOUowD5TVRfwXrIzP9k/gI
	L9a2BNcAS6/ooFfl6wm7tGvZU=
Subject: Re: [geda-user] [OT] Help finding solderless contact part
To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com
References: <A71A5D91-6936-4184-A62C-0E1260AD1B2C AT icloud DOT com>
 <CAE4k+fuoWG5mVzZ0n-z-LKJSyW1u1uo7YO_1H9bHVjAHgZx9NA AT mail DOT gmail DOT com>
 <430B9126-23DB-41D0-A1D5-09C8B3B4647A AT icloud DOT com>
 <CAOuGh8-jbvRNg8T4nAkZ6FZVSOuM839ay0MjaGfnNx6SD7rG4w AT mail DOT gmail DOT com>
 <7BD76904-BB2A-4BFA-B27F-6B74531E5C5A AT icloud DOT com>
From: "John Griessen (john AT ecosensory DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" <geda-user AT delorie DOT com>
Message-ID: <3638b5ad-e159-6a1e-9ecb-ced6e5a1de1c@ecosensory.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 10:40:14 -0500
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101
 Thunderbird/45.8.0
MIME-Version: 1.0
In-Reply-To: <7BD76904-BB2A-4BFA-B27F-6B74531E5C5A@icloud.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed
X-SG-EID: V53lTA/kUP1+IqXnzXuv0M/cu/N8aMtf7nxyAyKnAkuC94D0bG8cSN+uQJQvoj2ws6ILRiuS3PXEYz
 puD2ZE6tiQAxWNq9ZE7IbLUQU2rk5ryyyBw9d+1I/UW89qWPk+I9D5cRVu8lS18cMEkegsx9Mbjehe
 rqezNVMXMkkeZil+qJhTQD3zbU/I4VXjiUbAKpt/v89kGmwu7PAB5WH4MJB8ae7nT4J8Kl/HqixEUe
 M=
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id v3CFeGbP008087
Reply-To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com
Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com
X-Mailing-List: geda-user AT delorie DOT com
X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com
Precedence: bulk

On 04/12/2017 08:10 AM, Chris Smith (space DOT dandy AT icloud DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> I remember having an electronics set as a kid that used them; it had a bunch of discrete components that you connected together by trapping wires in the springs to make different circuits.  I gave up looking since I couldn’t find a specific reference to them.

It might have been by Philips.  I have a fuzzy recollection of such from 1964 1965 1966.