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I made all kinds of different
product application demos for various shows like WESCON and IEEE. Most of these were laid out on Plexiglas,
so the 4-layer diode was the visible part of the circuit, and the demo
would flash lights or generate sounds, noise. (very dynamic). I
have a picture of a one-megawatt pulse generator, that was made for the
1961 IEEE in New York. It was the
first time that anyone purposely switched a megawatt with solid state
switches. They made me turn it off at the convention because it was wiping
out everyone’s instrumentation.
This must have been a very
interesting job – working on new applications for the Shockley diode.
I had good guidance. At the time Jim Gibbons was a consultant
to Shockley Transistor. He and I
would sit down every Tuesday and Thursday mornings with a stack on
inquiries, write replies to the
easy questions and set up experiments to develop answers for the more
difficult ones. I would then
design and build the circuits, take data and the next time Jim and I got
together we’d write up the answers to those questions. We just had an absolute ball there for a
couple of years trying out new circuit ideas and generating application
notes.
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