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Old 25th Nov 2020, 5:06 pm   #83
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Default Re: Would we have got to the moon with no semiconductors?

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There was also the story of how the Americans spent a fortune developing the Papermate pen which would write in zero gravity , while the cosmonauts got pencils .
Almost, you don't want bits of conductive pencil lead floating around, what was found that a normal ball point worked, all down to surface tension.