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We would love tunnel diodes in packaging for our semiconductor  display ay smecc ed#
On Friday, November 15, 2019 charlesmorris800--- via cctalk <charlesmorris800 at centurytel.net; cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
>I've got a bunch of tunnel diodes; never found a practical use for them
for me.

You must not own any older Tektronix scopes then. At one time I had fourteen and there were several tunnel diodes in almost every one (trigger circuits mostly).
And their characteristics do drift with age, sometimes out of the range of adjustment
:)
-Charles