----- Original Message -----
From: "Dwight K. Elvey" <dwight.elvey(a)amd.com>
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 7:49 PM
Subject: Re: Gaps in the collection (was Re: rarest computers. )
>From: "ben franchuk"
<bfranchuk(a)jetnet.ab.ca>
>
>Geoffrey Thomas wrote:
>> Reminds me of the old Radio Constructor designs where the designer made
one
transistor do both rf and af amplification.
Can't remember his name - or what he called his designs.
I'm sure he was knighted or something like that .... anybody ?
- Sir Alec Douglas Hall ? was it ?
Sounds too much like Alec Douglas Hume !
I have no idea who invented it since it was used every where, since the
humble
vacume tube ( valve) was invented. You can still buy or build them today.
http://www.vcomp.co.uk/one_tube_1935/one_tube_1935.htm
http://schmarder.com/radios/tube/index.htm
Ben.
Hi
The circuit is called a reflex circuit. The second web page
above shows a tube reflex circuit.
Dwight
Yes, thanks - but the author had a special name for it - that's what I can't
remember.
Geoff.