Jason Hsu wrote:

As a result of the restructuring, there are several different versions
of Technician license:
1. The old Tech Plus licensees: Unlike the No-Code Technicians, they
have limited operating privileges on HF and do not need to take the 5
wpm exam again to upgrade to General.

And there's two versions of this group: The very old Tech plus who
passed the general
written and 5 WPM (I was one of these), and a newer post early 1987 tech
plus, who took
an easier written and the 5wpm. The first group can get their general
by only a paperwork
submission (they have to prove that they got their tech plus before
1987), but the newer
tech plusers need to take the general written. While I went for my
paperwork general
upgrade I did the extra writtens (at the time I had advanced 4A and
extra 4B written CSCEs)
and became an "extra lite". Partly to get my "very old tech plus" credit
"locked in" in the
FCC data base, and to get more priv's.