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As I said to another poster the other day, don't rent my name for your flame wars.

Phil Hobbs

You _don't_ know how to do such a ramp?

You _don't_ take pity on Larkin ?:-)

Sure you do O:-) ...Jim Thompson

JL and I kick around circuit designs together all the time, both here and offline. We both learn stuff from each other, generate a lot of ideas, and have a good time doing it. We designed one instrument together (with one of the other Highland guys, Jonathan Dufour), and will probably do more soonish. (He also makes good red beans and rice, and has excellent taste in pubs.)

I've kicked some stuff around with you too, though not as much, and that was also productive.

It's called "collaborating", you see, and it doesn't involve flaming or head games. Often, as in this case, collaborators becomes friends, which is one of life's larger blessings.

The Godzilla vs Rodan thing around SED is just plain tiresome, regardless of who's doing it at any given moment.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

I'm tired of it as well. I guess I might as well give up. I try to give Larkin some advice and he goes nutso.

Instead of advice I'll just take to posting solutions ;-) ...Jim Thompson

When?

Because I post about electronics, and he (and you) whine without contributing anything.

JT, as usual, says he has wonderful circuits but won't reveal them. I suppose we'll have to trust and admire him.

Everyone should. I'm absolutely wonderful. I design microchips that work right out of the box, no tweaks, no re-spins, no blue wires; and I have fun doing it... lots of fun. And I'm a wonderfully pleasant individual, laugh probably too much, for it's hard to ignore the Larkin's of this world.

That's why I invite people to come on by. Show off my works and show them how diametrically different I am from such cretins as Larkin and Slowman ;-) ...Jim Thompson

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Much fatter, to start with. And pig ignorant over a very wide range of subjects - Jim-out-of-touch-with-reality-Thompson didn't earn his name overnight, with one single flagrant exhibition of ignorance, but has worked for it for years.

John Larkin knows quite a bit of stuff that happens to be wrong - his ideas about anthropogenic global warming seem to be culled from Fox News - but Jim Thompson doesn't even know that anthropogenic global warming is an issue.

And of course, maligantly stupid. He wrecked his credibility with the FBI by reporting me to them as "dangerously anti-American" which is a remarkably fatuous lunacy. Even Jim Yanik couldn't be sillier.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

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Have you ever used one of his integrated circuits?

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

I never watch television [1], and don't look at the Fox web site. But I know how tricky temperature measurements can be, ditto nonlinear simulations of complex chaotic systems.

No s*it, dumbfuck. That is why it was mentioned.

Logic errors back then were far more prevalent than they are at today's superior logic levels. They are, in fact, quite rare.

There is a specification.

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Unbelieveable! You actually made a reasoned response!

Did you take the Navy technician course? Did they start with electron current or conventional current?

I was in the Navy for a week, sort of an introductory dose. It was sort of cool, but I didn't want any more.

Yup, a real sweetie, when he's not saying obscene things about my wife.

He hasn't told us where his wife went to college.

I probably have. I did an AGC mike preamp for the C5A and used an MC15xx or some such. It was a simple NPN diff pair, with a current sink (transistor and a resistor) to drive the emitters, three transistors total. It may have had an emitter follower output, too. Can't remember, it was 40 years ago, when I was just a teenager.

I stuck the audio signal into the bottom transistor and used the top pair, current steering, to vary the gain. It wasn't hi-fi, but mil audio system specs tolerate a lot of THD. The real value here was the matched NPN pair.

I used to remember every circuit I ever designed, but the numbers finally overwhelmed me. Some are really worth remembering, some aren't.