[sdiy] Saw core JFET mystery

David G. Dixon dixon at interchange.ubc.ca
Mon Mar 1 21:51:11 CET 2010


> A Franco Resistor was a political dissident opposed to regime of Spanish
> fascist dictator Francisco Franco during his rule from 1939-1978. Many
> of these people were tortured and/or put to death, hence the common
> phrase "It is useless to be a resistor", or sometimes "Resistance is
> futile".
> 
> Perhaps David meant the "De Franco resistor", a technique discovered by
> Sergio De Franco to improve the response time of JFET reset transistors
> in VCOs? Googling turns up these documents with some details:

No, Eric, I meant a Franco Resistor!  !Viva la Revolucion!




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