"To Ignorance and Beyond!!!"

[Bugbear]

If that's the way an engineer would define a transistor, would a biologist describe an insect as "invariably having four legs, as many as six?"

No, "invariably having six legs, and sometimes having extra mutent legs," might describe the situation.

A transistor always has at least three connections: whether it's PNP, NPN, MOSFET, or which ever kind. You can only take the insect comparison so far because you can cut the legs off of an insect and it is still an insect. If you cut a leg off of a transistor, it can behave like something else; perhaps a diode or possibly a resister.

Oh! How did I get involved in this! Defend your own self, O'Callaghan!!

* and thanks for not having put me on your ignore list up to this point.

[Bigkahuna]

PoWM! I would've been wiping tears from my eyes at that point, just dying laughing. Just awesome...nearly downright epic, in its complete and utter failure.

Some days, I honestly wonder how on earth we can remain a major world power. Those of you who are educators by trade, my hat's off to you, you damn sure have your work cut out for you .



You just reminded me of a hilarious line from the movie Chasing Amy..."What's a Nubian?"

"How much is a Brazilian?"

[Whidbey78]

"How much is a Brazilian?"

Slow down! Your always Russian.

[Bugbear]

I think "a Brazilian" is less than a Sagan.

* And yes, I know Sagan never said it, it was Johnny Carson spoofing Carl Sagan who came up with "billians and billians."

[Brian K]

"How much is a Brazilian?"

I think it depends on the Brazilian.

[Nighthawk]

My daughter said to me a couple days ago "Feed me! I'm Hungarian!" She was joking, of course... and is nowhere NEAR college age! Kids... This was shortly after she bit me on arm, grinned and said "I'm a piranha, and I eat MEAT!"

[Whidbey78]

My daughter said to me a couple days ago "Feed me! I'm Hungarian!" She was joking, of course... and is nowhere NEAR college age! Kids... This was shortly after she bit me on arm, grinned and said "I'm a piranha, and I eat MEAT!"

Mmmmm. Tastes like chicken!

Now I'm dreading my boy getting his teeth.

[Bugbear]

Ah, she's a little cannibal child. Another classic Hawk family moment.

[Frank]

AT the risk of sending everyone to sleep, a Field Effect Transistor (FET) has four leads. Three are similar to those on a regular transistor, with the fourth called the body, substrate or base. It's usually tied to the highest voltage rail of the circuit.

[Jerry]

And then, there is the filament, cathode, control grid, screen grid suppressor grid and plate. Most of the equipment I worked on in the 60s Navy was tube type. Just starting to
see transistors.