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Rev. Charles Browning<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Yesterday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Yesterday</span></a> I learned that big companies like <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Sony" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sony</span></a> hide their fuses in boxes that make them look like <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/transistors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transistors</span></a> and stuff so that only those who know how to decipher the archane runes of electrical engineers can identify that it's a fuse (thus tricking people into throwing away devices).</p>
Diane Bruce VA3DB<p>Found this site really interesting. The photos are awesome!</p><p><a href="http://semiconductormuseum.com/Museum_Index.htm" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">semiconductormuseum.com/Museum</span><span class="invisible">_Index.htm</span></a></p><p>Remember when early germanium transistors would thermal runaway? Gave transistors a bad rap in the early days. Germanium is still in use just not in high powered audio amplifiers AFAIK anyway. ;)</p><p>We need a tech history hashtag...</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/Electronics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Electronics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/Transistors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Transistors</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/HistoryOfTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HistoryOfTech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/AmateurRadio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmateurRadio</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/Hamradio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hamradio</span></a></p>
IT News<p>When Transistor Count Mattered - Many Hackaday readers have an interest in retro technology, but we are not the onl... - <a href="https://hackaday.com/2024/12/01/when-transistor-count-mattered/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hackaday.com/2024/12/01/when-t</span><span class="invisible">ransistor-count-mattered/</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/transistorradio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transistorradio</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/classichacks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>classichacks</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/transistors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transistors</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/transistor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transistor</span></a></p>
IT News<p>Rebuilding The First Digital Personal Computer - When thinking of the first PCs, most of us might imagine something like the Apple ... - <a href="https://hackaday.com/2024/08/16/rebuilding-the-first-digital-personal-computer/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hackaday.com/2024/08/16/rebuil</span><span class="invisible">ding-the-first-digital-personal-computer/</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/integratedcircuits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>integratedcircuits</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/period" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>period</span></a>-correct <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/powersupply" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>powersupply</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/transistors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transistors</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/recreation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>recreation</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/kenbak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>kenbak</span></a>-1 <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/pcb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pcb</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/ttl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ttl</span></a></p>
🧿🪬🍄🌈🎮💻🚲🥓🎃💀🏴🛻🇺🇸<p>So now I need to decide whether I want to try to find a replacement and desolder the old wires, or just solder on some extension wires to the old transistor. </p><p>Anyone know how to source a replacement transistor? </p><p>Is "BSX 95S F10" an important code, or is "T401" the important part?</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/electronics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>electronics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/hardware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hardware</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/transistor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transistor</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/transistors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transistors</span></a></p>
IT News<p>CPU Built From Discrete Transistors - We all know, at least intellectually, that our computers are all built with lots o... - <a href="https://hackaday.com/2023/09/30/cpu-built-from-discrete-transistors/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hackaday.com/2023/09/30/cpu-bu</span><span class="invisible">ilt-from-discrete-transistors/</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/discretecomponents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>discretecomponents</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/computerhacks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>computerhacks</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/circuitdesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>circuitdesign</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/transistors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transistors</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/transistor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transistor</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/parts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>parts</span></a></p>
C.<p>So the electronic module bolted to the back of this 3-phase motor contains what's called a "Variable Frequency Drive", or <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/VFD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VFD</span></a>. That is a complicated setup with a bunch of very high-powered <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/transistors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transistors</span></a> to turn 1-phase power into 3-phases for controlling and running the motor, along with a <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/CPU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CPU</span></a>/#MPU to manage it, send different <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/waveforms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>waveforms</span></a> to each of the 3 motor terminals to control its <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/speed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>speed</span></a>, etc.</p><p>It also has to "talk" to the furnace control board. And there's another <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/puzzle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>puzzle</span></a>.</p><p>11/x</p>
Carsten Raddatz<p>Three extra bn € for new Intel fab "for increased resiliency"</p><p><a href="https://nerdica.net/display/a85d7459-1964-9060-2f10-3d3490398391" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">nerdica.net/display/a85d7459-1</span><span class="invisible">964-9060-2f10-3d3490398391</span></a></p>
Stephen Shankland<p>Jim Clarke, Intel's quantum computing chief, wrote the Gordon Moore obituary for Nature Electronics. Mentions the Intel Trinity (Moore, Robert Noyce, Andy Grove) but not the Traitorous Eight (Moore, Noyce et al. who left Shockley Semiconductor). <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41928-023-00969-1" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nature.com/articles/s41928-023</span><span class="invisible">-00969-1</span></a><br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Intel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Intel</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/obituary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>obituary</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/MooresLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MooresLaw</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/semiconductor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>semiconductor</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/chips" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chips</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/transistors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transistors</span></a></p>
Carsten Raddatz<p>Radiofeature: warum kommen Halbleiter aus Taiwan?</p><p><a href="https://nerdica.net/display/a85d7459-4064-4e6d-7b97-19b535100318" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">nerdica.net/display/a85d7459-4</span><span class="invisible">064-4e6d-7b97-19b535100318</span></a></p>
dpc2<p>Reading the EE Journal's recent articles about the solid-state transistor's 75th birthday, I'm now falling into a rabbit hole about old watch technology.<br>I'm not a watch person, but this article about the 1960's Bulova Accutron is really interesting! Apparently it used a tiny mechanical tuning fork as part of its watch movement, wild stuff!</p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/oldtech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oldtech</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/watches" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>watches</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/transistors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transistors</span></a></p><p><a href="https://grail-watch.com/2022/04/14/bulova-accutron-the-watch-of-the-1960s/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">grail-watch.com/2022/04/14/bul</span><span class="invisible">ova-accutron-the-watch-of-the-1960s/</span></a></p>
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