[sdiy] Tau Systems

[lanterma at ece.gatech.edu]

On Mar 30, 2011, at 1:51 PM, <jays at aracnet.com>
 <jays at aracnet.com> wrote:

> In the day of Japanese radios most of the transistors used were
> germanium and not silicon. PNP germanium transistors were easier to
> build and I think may of been less noisy than NPN ones.

PNPs also seem to be used all over old guitar pedals (like the original Fuzz Face), probably for the same reasons.

- Aron