[sdiy] 2N1759 ID

[Batz Goodfortune]

Y-ellow Eric 'n' all.
         First of all thanks for the nfo every one. Much appreciated.

At 11:47 PM 8/16/02 -0700, metasonix at earthlink.net wrote:
>They didn't have high-current ohmic contacts perfected until
>the mid-60s. 2N1759 is a military device, from around 1957.

That old? What am I doing with them then? They probably came out of some ex 
Maralinga gear. Anyone got a Geiger counter handy?

>A copy was made by the Russians, so it must have been used in
>military radios. Soviet factories used to get American mil radio
>gear (from spies) and reverse engineer it. Everything, even the
>nuts and bolts, were copied.

Damn those pesky Russians. Someone should have blown them up. Infringing 
copyright like that. It's bad enough that the RIAA are running round like 
Dr. Strangelove but thank God they don't have nukes.

>btw, "K in a box" I think was the logo of Karr Electronics, a looong defunct
>semiconductor maker in New Jersey.

Ahhhh. You make me feel young again knowing this stuff. Actually when I 
googled for these things, the only pages I found were one or two places 
which had them listed for sale and several pages in Russian. (If I remember 
correctly)

>That thing is a collector's item, Batz! Don't use it!!!
>Its performance will suck, anyway.....

OK. Well I've found the other one I had and I've just snuck in and put them 
in the glass cabinet in the front of the house. I'll see how long it takes 
for certain people to notice them there and complain. :)

Thanks again.

Be absolutely Icebox.


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