transisor characteristics

Hello Ian,

It is amazing what Wikipedia has become. Our paper compared it to Encyclopedia Britannica and it was not far behind that.

Regards, Joerg

It is really rather incredible. I'd love to say I predicted it, but my first response to the embryonic one was 'that'll never work'.

The above entry is by no means perfect, I prefer the treatment in AoE, but there is nothing that I can see that is categorically incorrect, and of course, if I objected to it strongly enough, I could edit it.

Anybody could, but you should use google or other search engine to do that; many transistor makers have data sheets on most common bipolar transistors. Or a good search can be done via Mouser or DigiKey, using the part number(s) you have in mind.

I've never done anything like this, but you might try something like this: Record a couple seconds of noise, save it to a .wav file (Noise1.wav) Make a copy of the file (Noise2.wav) Using a wav file editor (such as Audacity), trim the beginning second of noise from Noise1.wav and save the file. Load Noise2.wav and trim the ending second from the wav file and save it. Now, load both files as separate tracks in stereo mode and then combine them, making a new mono track. Save the new mono noise file. Loop it and see how it sounds.