>
> Old-school flip-flop. It has a minimal transistor-count because back in 
> those days these were rather expensive and nobody cared about 
> power-consumption. A CMOS flop consumes zero static power but requires at 
> least 8 transistors to accomplish set-reset, whereas this bipolar dinosaur 
> uses at least 250mW static power if I did my calculations correctly. The 
> diodes & caps make the circuit edge-sensitive, not to mention interesting, 
> and a mental simulation tells me it's a falling-edge triggered. I havn't 
> figured-out why the -24V biasing is needed; perhaps those old transistors 
> were a tad too leaky ???


I'm sticking with FPGA's..... 

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