Happy 100th Birthday to the flip-flop! (nt)

mhardy6647
mhardy6647 Posts: 35,151
in Electronics
Not talkin' footware here, we're talkin' basic, enabling electronic circuitry for the "digital revolution". 100 years old this month! I didn't even send a card :p

https://hackaday.com/2018/06/04/a-100th-birthday-celebration-for-the-flip-flop/

Thanks to Gary Kaufman for the link :)

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  • motorhead43026
    motorhead43026 Posts: 4,017
    edited June 2018
    I thought this thread would be about those things you wear on your feet that trip and try to kill you.
    Since we don’t know where we are going we have to stick together in case someone gets there….Ken Kesey

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    The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”……George Orwell-Animal Farm.
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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 27,169
    Those batteries aren't 100yrs old lol
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  • mlistens03
    mlistens03 Posts: 2,767
    edited June 2018
    pitdogg2 wrote: »
    Those batteries aren't 100yrs old lol

    They are new old stock.
    :wink:
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  • Tony M
    Tony M Posts: 11,673
    100 years old and it hasn't caught fire yet! B)

    Goes to show you, some designs just work right forever.

    Makes me think of that light bulb in that Firehouse that still burned for over 100 years I think. It might still be burning bright.
    Most people just listen to music and watch movies. I EXPERIENCE them.

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    --Mark Twain.

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