17 Jun
2011
17 Jun
'11
3:18 p.m.
From: ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk
Most germaniums were point contact. One is balancing on the
tip of that tiny point.
Dwight
In computing (not talking about audio here) I
don't think there was
much debate about valves vs. transistors. Transistors were pretty
quickly embraced for computer hardware when manufacturing and
reliability were sufficient for the application.
However, the last isvery important. Professor Wilkes told me (IIRC) that
the most unreliable components in EDSAC were the germanium diodes.
-tony