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From: Clive Arthur <clive@nowaytoday.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: kids these days
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2024 16:45:37 +0100
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On 30/09/2024 19:11, john larkin wrote:
<snip>
> 
> If they get the DC part about right, I ask them for any other
> comments. All sorts of things could be mentioned.
> 
> With the base looking at 5K, it's unlikley to oscillate. It would be a
> miracle if any kid even mentioned emitter follower oscillation. Or
> noise, or tempcos, or anything else.
> 

Along with a colleague, I interviewed someone for a repair technician's 
job a few years back.  Among the questions was a simple common emitter 
single transistor stage which we asked him to explain.

He blew us away.  He knew *far* more detail than either of us.  Turned 
out he was a shit-hot analog designer looking for a less stressful job 
as he wound down to retirement.  He turned out to be brilliant at his 
new job, and mentored a lot of younger people.  He left when the company 
was bought by a large US corporation with the concomitant mind-numbing 
treacle-wading bullshit. [Me too!]

[Among the other questions were to make an Xor using two-input Nands, 
show a methodology for calculating a square root where that function 
isn't available, and tell us at what temperature solder melts.]

-- 
Cheers
Clive