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General => Open Discussion => Topic started by: midwayfair on December 03, 2017, 04:51:46 AM

Title: Germanium transistors spotting the oddest place: an old calculator
Post by: midwayfair on December 03, 2017, 04:51:46 AM


Must be a couple dozen 2N1305 in a brief shot a few minutes in.

This guy is one of the weirdest people Numberfile interviews on the regular, and since they interview mathematicians, that's saying something ...
Title: Re: Germanium transistors spotting the oddest place: an old calculator
Post by: Betty Wont on December 03, 2017, 05:04:21 AM
Too rad! I didn't know that they were so expensive back then either.
Title: Re: Germanium transistors spotting the oddest place: an old calculator
Post by: kgull on December 03, 2017, 06:39:38 AM
Quote from: midwayfair on December 03, 2017, 04:51:46 AM
This guy is one of the weirdest people Numberfile interviews on the regular, and since they interview mathematicians, that's saying something ...
Cliff is the man! He's always genuinely excited about the stuff he talks about. Never fails to put me in a good mood.
Title: Re: Germanium transistors spotting the oddest place: an old calculator
Post by: midwayfair on December 03, 2017, 03:15:43 PM
Quote from: kgull on December 03, 2017, 06:39:38 AM
Quote from: midwayfair on December 03, 2017, 04:51:46 AM
This guy is one of the weirdest people Numberfile interviews on the regular, and since they interview mathematicians, that's saying something ...
Cliff is the man! He's always genuinely excited about the stuff he talks about. Never fails to put me in a good mood.

Oh, I don't disagree, he's an auto click for me. But a dude who builds robots to retrieve one of the thousands of Kline bottles hidden in his crawl space is, you must admit, a touch on the odd side.
Title: Re: Germanium transistors spotting the oddest place: an old calculator
Post by: stecykmi on December 04, 2017, 10:39:37 PM
the "Millionaire" mechanical calculator video in the same series is pretty cool too.