PDP-11/44 boot prompt

From: Allison J Parent <allisonp_at_world.std.com>
Date: Sun Nov 1 22:12:59 1998

< It's possible to make transistors with not too complex equipment

It's trivial. All you needs is some crystal pure germainium and two
gold wires. The wires will be placed ajacent to each other without
touching and in contact with the chunk of germainium. To that apply a
pulse of current to each wire to cause localized heating and hence
contact doping. Test your transistor. You will find it noisy, leaky,
slow and exactly the same as the Bell labs proto!

congrats, you have succeeded. You can now continue on to grown junction,
alloy, diffused and then silicon based devices. Junction FETs will come
later after you have figured how to get planar diffusion technology.

Allison
Received on Sun Nov 01 1998 - 22:12:59 GMT