22 Oct
2005
22 Oct
'05
3:52 p.m.
On 10/22/2005 at 10:06 PM ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk wrote:
And weren't there '12 transistor' radios in
the 1960's where half of the
transistors had all 3 leads connected to the ground rail (and therefore
they did nothing other than enable that statement to be printed on the
case).
I hadn't realized that the manufacturers had even bothered to ground the
things...
Sort of like CPU clock speeds today. Didn't one of the 6809 design team
say something to the effect of "if clock speeds really mattered, we'dve
designed the chip to accept waveguide".
Cheers,
Chuck