Ukko,
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If the Soviets knew how crystal oscillators worked, they would've taken over the world

nyoom,
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@Ukko is that a zachtronics game? I feel like its familiar

Ukko,
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@nyoom yeah, an old zachtronics flash game, https://www.zachtronics.com/kohctpyktop-engineer-of-the-people/ (tho lagged like hell for me with ruffle), also available in the ZACH-LIKE collection on Steam, also available in the Flashpoint archive https://flashpointarchive.org/

nyoom,
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@Ukko yeah I remember playing that like 15 years ago

Ukko,
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@nyoom Not that long ago for me but yeah

Ukko,
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@nyoom A friend was playing some game about making computers out of NAND gates or smth like that and then I found out it has no feedback or loops allowed so I went back to the classics

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@Ukko idgi

Ukko,
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@paula9 That thing is simulating an oscillator by abusing the fact that every transistor delays the signal by one fifth of a "tick" so it's a stack of NPN transistors with emitter and base connected to the collector of the previous one, so there's 10 of them and then the output of that essentially goes to the output (actually it gets inverted and ANDed with the ENable pin but not important) and then there's 8 more of them going back and then the signal goes to a PNP transistor and when that activates the entire stack loses signal and the cycle begins anew. This makes no sense does it

Ukko,
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@paula9 why 8 not 10 in the second half? experiments showed that this way the oscillator didn't drift over time :)

paula9,
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@Ukko damn girl you're smart

Ukko,
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@paula9 No this doesn't really apply in real life semiconductors I think + nowadays they're all mosfets anyhow I think

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