**Updated**Resistor and Cap charts - Check these out

Yes, I remember the non-PC version well. Another shortcut was the way to remember the symbols for NPN and PNP transistors; NPN stood for "Not Pointed iN".

There is another version of the "BED" code for the IRC insulated resistors which were heavily used by Philco, Scott, and Crosley, and many others; on those resistors, the colors are read the same way, the only difference being that the dot is usually a stripe. Very early ones will have a dot.

Tim KA3JRT