From: curd@notformail.com   
      
   On Fri, 18 Jan 2019 15:10:03 -0800, jurb6006 wrote:   
      
   >>"I knew that before the age of ten just by   
   > reading a few books"   
   >   
   > Yeah, now go brag bout being born later. When I was born KID there   
   > weren't no sucha thing as a MOSFET. All we had was JFETs.   
   >   
   > Deal with that !   
      
   And thermionic valves. I remember all the books at that time explained so   
   much about valves and so much about transistors; 50-50 roughly. Soon all   
   the valves (toobs) were dropped from new books. I found valves were *so*   
   much easier to understand than BJTs. I didn't fully understand trannies   
   until I was maybe 15. Never really gelled with the beta paradigm, was   
   much more into the Vbe model. Funny how EEs are all either one or the   
   other. We had a discussion on Vbe vs. Beta models on SED a while back; we   
   were totally split down the middle on which we preferred to use. I mean   
   like *right* down the middle. Weird.   
      
      
      
      
      
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