Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: 1N34s
Message-ID: <1989Dec2.024833.13094@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <5386@internal.Apple.COM> <24441@cup.portal.com> <1989Nov25.080724.19517@utzoo.uucp> <24473@cup.portal.com> <1989Nov29.175720.4671@utzoo.uucp> <24605@cup.portal.com>
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 89 02:48:33 GMT

In article <24605@cup.portal.com> ISW@cup.portal.com (Isaac S Wingfield) writes:
>Sounds to me like you've got the real thing. Gonna build a crystal set?

I've occasionally thought about trying it, but last time I priced a decent
variable capacitor I decided it was a bit much for a whim.  Someday maybe.
I picked up a handful of 1N34s a while ago, for some experiments with
battery-backup circuits that wanted a diode with a low forward drop.
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