1 Jan
2006
1 Jan
'06
4:22 p.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
I find it a great pity that now that transistors have
become so cheap
(particularly when in ICs), most people don't care how many are used, and
most modern designs use far too many of them. It's amazing what could be
done with 2 or 3 of the things, but those clever designs have been mostly
forgotten.
I remember seeing a vast encyclopedia of clever designs when
I was at an electronics class at the technical college in
Colchester. It was a big book of circuits, all just a few
transistors or maybe an IC in the more advanced ones. I wish
I knew the name of that book, so that I could look it up on
the net -- does anyone remember that sort of thing? Any idea
what it was called?
--
John Honniball
coredump at gifford.co.uk