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To: Red Badger
What is old is new again. Germanium tranistors dominated into the mid 1960s.


4 posted on 04/27/2023 12:41:56 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

One good thing about germanium is it’s lower forward bias voltage drop is less than silicon’s by about half.


5 posted on 04/27/2023 12:43:36 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

yup


11 posted on 04/27/2023 1:22:24 PM PDT by mylife (I was a sort of country boy, a cockeyed optimist, wrapped in international intrigue and espionage)
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