Germanium transistors spotting the oddest place: an old calculator

[midwayfair]

Must be a couple dozen 2N1305 in a brief shot a few minutes in.

This guy is one of the weirdest people Numberfile interviews on the regular, and since they interview mathematicians, that's saying something ...

[Betty Wont]

Too rad! I didn't know that they were so expensive back then either.

[kgull]

This guy is one of the weirdest people Numberfile interviews on the regular, and since they interview mathematicians, that's saying something ...

Cliff is the man! He's always genuinely excited about the stuff he talks about. Never fails to put me in a good mood.

[midwayfair]

This guy is one of the weirdest people Numberfile interviews on the regular, and since they interview mathematicians, that's saying something ...

Cliff is the man! He's always genuinely excited about the stuff he talks about. Never fails to put me in a good mood.

Oh, I don't disagree, he's an auto click for me. But a dude who builds robots to retrieve one of the thousands of Kline bottles hidden in his crawl space is, you must admit, a touch on the odd side.

[stecykmi]

the "Millionaire" mechanical calculator video in the same series is pretty cool too.