Re: History of decoupling capacitors
From: Paul Burridge (pb_at_notthisbit.osiris1.co.uk)
Date: 06/27/04
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Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 10:26:15 +0100
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 15:28:44 -0700, John Larkin
<jjlarkin@highSNIPlandTHIStechPLEASEnology.com> wrote:
>Actually, capacitors - and resistors, for that matter - were expensive
>in the early days of radio. In 1921, a 1M grid-leak resistor could
>cost a dollar or two, and paper or mica caps, a few nf, were similar.
>A lot of early radios had no fixed capacitors at all.
Wow! Amateurs must have enjoyed great satisfaction 'rolling their own'
passives in those days, then.
-- "What is now proved was once only imagin'd." - William Blake, 1793.
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