Re: COBOL and tricks

From	The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups	alt.folklore.computers, comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: COBOL and tricks
Date	2022-10-31 08:12 +0000
Organization	A little, after lunch
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On 31/10/2022 03:52, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> On 2022-10-30, Charles Richmond <codescott@aquaporin4.com> wrote:
> 
>> And all must be familiar with the "light emitting diode", but how about
>> the "noise emitting diode"??? With a noise emitting diode, you apply a
>> large voltage and you will hear one quick POP!!!  Then the magic smoke
>> escapes, and the diode has to be replaced...   ;-)
> 
> One of the electronics magazines (Popular Electronics?) ran a regular
> column titled "Noteworthy Circuits", which contained simple but
> interesting schematics.  One April the column was re-titled
> "Not Worthy Circuits", and featured such things as a two-transistor
> battery discharger (along with a simpler one-transistor version which
> was adequate if you didn't mind having to get the polarity right).
> I'm not sure whether that's where I first heard a reference to the
> noise-emitting diode, but it's certainly up the same alley.
> 
> Then there was the black hole diode, which could be incorporated into
> the read head of a floppy disk drive so you could read shrink-wrapped
> discs without breaking the seal.
> 
The one I liked best was the ultra low distortion  audio amp technology, 
entitled 'ASPOW'

A footnote in very small print right at the end identified this as 'a 
straight piece of wire'

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other ideas but to the massive onslaught of circumstance"

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Re: COBOL and tricks Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2022-08-01 18:53 +0000
  Re: COBOL and tricks Charles Richmond <codescott@aquaporin4.com> - 2022-10-30 05:25 -0500
    Re: COBOL and tricks Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2022-10-30 11:33 +0000
    Re: COBOL and tricks Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2022-10-30 12:59 +0000
    Re: COBOL and tricks Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2022-10-31 03:52 +0000
      Re: COBOL and tricks The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2022-10-31 08:12 +0000
        Re: COBOL and tricks D.J. <chucktheouch@gmnol.com> - 2022-10-31 12:20 -0500

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