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> From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On
Behalf
> Of Michael Watterson
> Sent: 05 August 2010 17:26
> To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
> Subject: Re: [OT] Setting the record straight
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>   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.
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> I used to cut the top of metal can transistors to make a photo
> transistor when I was about 12. My first experiment might have been
> scraping paint of an OC71 or some such Germanium transistor.

I remember doing that and being a bit disappointed that the glass
capsule was full of a white coloured gel in the OC71's I had - the ones
that worked had a clear gel in them.


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