crisp@mips.COM (Richard Crisp) (01/17/90)
I remember another silly device I saw as a joke in "Electronic Design". It appeared in 1984 or so and was called the NIXONFET. It was a three terminal device with said terminals named as follows: 1) waterGATE 2) unimpeachableSOURCE 3) economicDRAIN. it was noted that the device operated in the fully depleted mode. -- Just the facts Ma'am
ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap) (01/18/90)
|I remember another silly device I saw as a joke in "Electronic Design".
This is starting to get away from computers, but Elektor, an
electronics construction magazine, regularly inserts an "April Fool"
circuit in their collections. One circuit consisted of two diodes back
to back, and a wire link shorting them.
The caption for the circuit was: Zero Volt Reference.
A addendum noted that the circuit was even more effective without the
diodes.urlichs@smurf.ira.uka.de (Matthias Urlichs) (01/20/90)
In alt.folklore.computers ken@cs.rochester.edu writes:
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< This is starting to get away from computers, but Elektor, an
< electronics construction magazine, regularly inserts an "April Fool"
< circuit in their collections. [...]
I fondly remember the one where they built a car keyhole heater,
when you car's door lock has ice inside and you can't unlock it.
They did it by making a fake key with some electronics on the handle which
were supposed to limit the current from your battery through the fake key and
the keyhole to the battery's ground.
You might wonder where to get the current from. Another car's battery
obviously won't work without the two cars actually touching and/or risking some
nifty sparks between them.
The Elektor guys decided to use your car's cigarette lighter.