1N34A Germanium Diode finally found!!

Aug 28, 2013 47 Replies
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R.I.P. "Oliver Germanium".

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The boys at Bell Labs were actually trying to make a jfet, which their materials weren't up to. As I recall reading somewhere, the bjt was an accidental outcome of that attempt.

I had lunch with Walter Brattain once when I was a kid, but I didn't know enough to ask him any good questions.

I started with tubes, and I don't miss them a bit.

John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc jlarkin at highlandtechnology dot com http://www.highlandtechnology.com Precision electronic instrumentation Picosecond-resolution Digital Delay and Pulse generators Custom laser drivers and controllers Photonics and fiberoptic TTL data links VME thermocouple, LVDT, synchro acquisition and simulation
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I think his son runs it now, but he's still around. IIRC Fred Molinari still runs Data Translation, too. ;)

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Phil Hobbs

Dr Philip C D Hobbs Principal Consultant ElectroOptical Innovations LLC Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics 160 North State Road #203 Briarcliff Manor NY 10510 USA +1 845 480 2058 hobbs at electrooptical dot net http://electrooptical.net
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Looks like I was out of date--I asked my GPD friends about Oliver a few years ago, and he was still extant.

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Phil Hobbs

Dr Philip C D Hobbs Principal Consultant ElectroOptical Innovations LLC Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics 160 North State Road #203 Briarcliff Manor NY 10510 USA +1 845 480 2058 hobbs at electrooptical dot net http://electrooptical.net
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This one? Gpd Optoelectronics Corp

7 Manor Parkway Salem, NH 03079-2842 (603) 894-6865
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Yup. Ask for George.

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Phil Hobbs

Dr Philip C D Hobbs Principal Consultant ElectroOptical Innovations LLC Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics 160 North State Road #203 Briarcliff Manor NY 10510 hobbs at electrooptical dot net http://electrooptical.net
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John Meshna, long gone. Both the owner and the surplus store.

Anyone wanting to run for any political office in the US should have to have a DD214, and a honorable discharge.
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