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AT 22 SAM ZELOOF HAS HAND BUILT A 1200 TRANSISTOR CHIP IN HIS GARAGE
PC PERSPECTIVE ^ | 24 Jan 2022 | Jeremy Hellstrom

Posted on 01/25/2022 8:12:39 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT

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To: DUMBGRUNT
In between two stints in the aviation industry I worked in an IBM clean-room producing wafers (slabs of micro chips).

Weird science - optics and lasers.

61 posted on 01/25/2022 11:22:32 AM PST by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

“Yes, I understand the process.

But not everyone finds the factory/epa settings optimal for their needs?

You can sometimes find them offshore...”

Obviously you don’t understand if you think you have to go offshore.


62 posted on 01/25/2022 11:28:42 AM PST by TexasGator (UF)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Now show me how it works in an actual IC that runs in a computer


63 posted on 01/25/2022 11:43:30 AM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

“Video shows it used in a guitar pedal as explained in the article.”

Nope

Nope


64 posted on 01/25/2022 11:49:24 AM PST by TexasGator (UF)
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To: Kommodor

“And here I thought I was hot stuff writing 6502 assembly routines in high school.”

When I was a freshman in college we used toggle switches!


65 posted on 01/25/2022 12:11:02 PM PST by TexasGator (UF)
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To: TexasGator

—”Nope”

Would you believe this link?

https://twitter.com/szeloof/status/1280249239495479297

Somewhere I saw a better video... but this came up first...


66 posted on 01/25/2022 12:35:55 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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To: TexasGator

So you are happy with the stock EPA tune?


67 posted on 01/25/2022 12:37:39 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Link: Distortion pedal with all homemade semiconductors, only one external component (cap for AC coupling)

Not a pedal

Only a reverb which can be built with 4 transistors.

Above my paygrade if he is not using resistors and capacitors.


68 posted on 01/25/2022 12:43:17 PM PST by TexasGator (UF)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

“So you are happy with the stock EPA tune?”

As previously posted, I upgraded from my stock 2019 to the 2020 stock tune.

Hard to not be happy with 750 hp and a five year warranty.


69 posted on 01/25/2022 12:46:18 PM PST by TexasGator (UF)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Well, thanks. It appears that these days, I think in Ada (the language, that is, sigh), and it appears to be reasonably well remunerated, so I’m not complaining ... much.


70 posted on 01/25/2022 1:06:13 PM PST by Kommodor (Solzhenitsyn was an optimist...)
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To: TexasGator

Woo-hoo! Punch cards too?

I would jest, except that honestly, I’d probably be better off if I was a boomer...


71 posted on 01/25/2022 1:12:59 PM PST by Kommodor (Solzhenitsyn was an optimist...)
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—”Hard to not be happy with 750 hp and a five year warranty.”

FIVE YEARS! Amazing.

But that clearly says there are more than a few horses to be rounded up by a wild cowboy.


72 posted on 01/25/2022 1:22:19 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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To: Kommodor

” Punch cards too?”

FSU and UF ran a compatibility match using using punch cards.

We got five names of the opposite sex at the other university.

On of the five Ingot was an old HS GF!


73 posted on 01/25/2022 1:25:49 PM PST by TexasGator (UF)
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