This noise generator from 1958 has been sitting on a shelf for year, even decades. If I should power it up suddenly, it would probably die. In this video, I explain how to slowly power up an old device to prevent it from releasing the magic smoke. At the same time I study the design choices the engineers from the past made in order to build a device with a bandwidth of 1 GHz.

Mees is pronounced: maze

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Chapters: 0:00 Intro 0:44 Opening it up 1:20 Design 2:33 Two elephants 4:03 The right mains voltage 4:47 Reform the components 5:42 Thou shalt measure voltages 8:04 Tear down 9:50 Functional test 12:03 Outro 12:21 Credits 14:35 Are you still here?

Music: George Street Shuffle by Kevin MacLeod (www.chosic.com/free-music/all/) CC BY 3.0

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