Re: What's the use of a 192 kHz sample rate?

On Sat, 3 May 2008 22:14:00 -0700, dplatt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Dave Platt)
wrote:

>In article <96fq141o7bh82pho575op2q1upefkq61bv@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>Rick Lyons  <R.Lyons@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>>Hi Randy,
>>  you remind me of the transistor radios when I was 
>>kid (back when the air was clean, and *** was dirty).
>>If a transistor radio manufacturer could claim that 
>>their radio had had more transistors than their competition, 
>>then that was strong "selling point".  As such, 
>>some transistor radio manufacturers were using transitors 
>>in place of the diodes needed in AM demodulation.
>>So instead of having four transistors and one diode, 
>>those manufacturers could claim "5-transistor performance",
>>in the hope of increasing sales.  Ha ha.
>
>I've read that there were some "7-transistor" radios, in which one or
>two of the transistors were soldered to unconnected pads on the board.
>They had no function at all, and they were often "floor sweeping"
>parts known to be defective... but they _were_ transistors and were
>present in the radio, and so the radio could be advertised (legally if
>not all that ethically) as a "7-transistor" model.

   When I was about 12-14 years old (early '70's) I looked carefully
at the circuit board of such a transistor radio, and I saw two
transistors that were: 1. each connected in a diode cofiguration, and
2. one of the two pads for each resulding "diode" did not connect
anywhere. I turned that circuit board over dozens of times to make
sure I was tracing the right transistor leads to the right pads. I
couldn't figure out for the life of me how that thing worked.