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- From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
- Subject: Re: Sex, the Final Frontier?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.010026.6475@news.columbia.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 01:00:26 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec19.041115.5286@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> quetzal@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Quetzal) writes:
- >
- >Everybody knows that you can't scramble diodes by using a magnet . . .
-
- There are noise-generating diodes that are "tuned" by optimal placement
- within a fixed magnetic field. While you can't scramble the diode per se,
- the magnet would disrupt the prevailing field and make the diode's output
- far different from the desired result. (Removing your magnet would restore
- the desired output.)
-
- While diodes would hardly be called einbahnstrasse, they certainly are
- "one-way" streets for current flow.
-
- cj "serving afu for over a 50th of a century" l
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