On 05/08/2010 16:54, Geo wrote:
> Micromint did a kit (Ciarcia published in Byte 1983) using a special
> dynamic ram chip but he mentions previous work in 1976 in the article.
>
> http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=3DfBuiNpYlyHcC&lpg=3DPP1&pg=3DRA1-PA31=
#v=3Donepage&q&f=3Dfalse
>
>
That would be my memory of it too. I probably had that issue of Byte.

I used to cut the top of metal can transistors to make a photo=20
transistor when I was about 12. My first experiment might have been=20
scraping paint of an OC71 or some such Germanium transistor.

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