Re:40 uses for Germanium Diodes (1950) [pdf]
by PoachedSausage on Monday June 01, 2020 @08:59AM
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I have a collection of old printed databooks and application notes from semiconductor manufacturers such a Analog Devices, Philips and Motorola (back when they produced silicon). A lot of the devices are obviously obsolete but the principles from the design examples are still valid.
Re:40 uses for Germanium Diodes (1950) [pdf]
by elcritch on Monday June 01, 2020 @11:09PM
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Hasn’t Stripe and others cannibalized the POS market? I figured that market would be saturated. Being another software/hardware guy the various POS systems Always seemed an interesting market. Do you do lot of custom work building custom POS?
Re:40 uses for Germanium Diodes (1950) [pdf]
by unnouinceput on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @04:33AM
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Always. Clients always like their solution to be personalized for their specific needs. No 2 shops are alike even if they are across each other on same street. Usually the custom work comes in form of: a). hardware used hence interfacing with it is custom and b). reports as each client has its own idea of how data should look in front of their eyes.
Having electronics and hardware background made my programming so much easier as it was easier to understand some concepts and choices that to "pure software" engineers appeared weird.
These days I love to combine hardware and software integration and boy oh boy, it pays so much better. Not many programmers out there that will offer a bill acceptor and/or magnetic card reader integration for a POS solution when your local restaurant wants to modernize their shop.
Show these kind of books to your kids, you'll never know where the rabbit jumps from.