Re: STUPID SIMULATIONS

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Subject: Re: STUPID SIMULATIONS
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Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 00:28:03 -0500
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From: 	Malcolm Watts[SMTP:MALCOLM-at-directorate.wnp.ac.nz]
Sent: 	Thursday, September 18, 1997 6:38 PM
To: 	tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: 	Re: STUPID SIMULATIONS

Fr. Tom,
          I'd just like to say hear hear to your post....

> From:   Thomas McGahee[SMTP:tom_mcgahee-at-sigmais-dot-com]
> Sent:   Thursday, September 18, 1997 11:48 AM
> To:     Tesla List
> Subject:    STUPID SIMULATIONS

<pretty big snip> 

> I use a simulator for electronic circuits called the Electronics
> Workbench. I can build simulations of circuits that I absolutely know
> work in the real world, and the simulator will give me results that
> are ridiculous. Like oscillators that don't oscillate. The
> Electronics Workbench is nice in that the students can't destroy
> expensive components, but give me a genuine protoboard circuit and
> REAL components ANY day!!!

I once heard of a variation on SPICE that made a single resistor 
oscillate.

Malcolm