Today I received some germanium diodes from ebay (1S34 that is the same as 1N34) and decided to replicate circuit from that Russian magazine again - germanium diodes on the left (inputs) and single silicon diode connects transistor base to the inputs common point. And it worked ;)
But voltage transmission curve was not perfect - threshold is too skewed:
Last time I shifted threshold by adding more diodes in transistor base circuit, but now I try something different - reversely connected Zener diode ;)
Initially I connected 3V Zener, but threshold goes not too far with it:
Then I tried 5.1V Zener:
Much better :)
With 4V power this circuit again reached 200 kHz:
Then I tried even more unusual thing - red LED :)
And it worked! U-curve looks like this now:
LED emits light in "zero" state (indicating AND function ; )
So we got NAND germanium gate with indicator showing AND function :)
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