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Great video! Takes me back 30 years to when I was nerding out with Radio Shack stuff. BTW, the actual content in the video starts at 3:15.

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Those old rat shack floor sweeping parts. I remember buying a bunch of the LM317 and LM337s they sold. The 317s were fine, every one of the 337 would get progressively noisier and self-destruct after a few days of operation. Didn't matter how well you filtered or bypassed, just noise, noise, noise, noise, zzzt.

I loved those LED packs, tho. They were great, you got all kinds of cool parts. I still have a handful of LEDs laying around from those.

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Metal oxide semi conductor field effect transistor.

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I'd have to say the electrolytic capacitor was the most significant invention. Nothing is really possible without those.

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Many things are important. But capacitors don't provide from our technology base.

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The electrolytic made movement from simple spark-gap transmission and crystal reception possible. Without it, you'd have no modern electronics.

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I was thinking your trans sister.