Gaps in the collection (was Re: rarest computers. )

[Stan Barr]

Hi,

"Dwight K. Elvey" <dwight.elvey at amd.com> said:
> 
> >From: "Geoffrey Thomas" <geoffreythomas at onetel.com>
> >
> >Just remembered - it was the "spontaflex" ,- it was Sir Douglas Hall and
> >there is a web page devoted to his circuits.
> >Geoff.
> >
> 
> Hi
>  A quick search shows that these are at:
>  
> http://freespace.virgin.net/spontaflex.reflex/
> 
>  From looking at some of the text, these are a combination
> of a reflex with some regenerative feedback to increase the
> Q of the tuning circuits.
>  I suppose one could write programs to sing through such
> a receiver on their clasic computer.

I built a 1-transistor regenerative reflex receiver back in the
late '60s.  I used a OC170 transistor salvaged from a scrap Ferranti
computer board, which keeps it on-topic I suppose :-)

I wish I'd kept the board now...probably an Atlas one :-(

-- 
Cheers,
Stan Barr  stanb at dial.pipex.com

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