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cies. He would not elaborate on the identi- Army Air Force secured debris from one ties of those present, but did say that two of _ crashed aircraft and a complete aircraft the men were uniformed Air Force officers. | which was landed by occupants trying to Shulman said the private meeting was determine the status of their comrades from held as a precursor to what he hopes will be _ the first crash site. The aircraft captured by more open "Town Hall" meetings where _ the Air Force are allegedly of extraterrestri- government officials will review and al manufacture, bearing engineering won- respond to UFO claims—including those ders previously unseen by humans. raised recently by Colonel Philip Corso as b) As a result of an in-depth study of well as by American Computer—that alien notes and things it purchased from an technology may have been passed through unnamed source, American Computer military channels to companies such as | Company announced that it has newly dis- Bell Labs, resulting in new technologies we _ covered a previously undetected electronic now take for granted. component, one that it feels the Air Force, Shulman agreed, when asked, that the IBM and Bell Labs overlooked in 1947. possible revelation of a secret government The notes were kept about a project during source connected with development of the 1947 involving IBM and AT&T who had transistor might well result in the greatest been hired by the Air Force to analyse the scandal in modern business history, even if wreckage and the intact spacecraft during the alien question were ignored. If Bell July and August of 1947. At least one past Labs personnel acquired, rather than analysis of the debris allegedly led to invented, the technology leading to the AT&T Bell Labs' announcement of the transistor, Bell Labs might have no legal transistor in September of 1947. claim to the patents. The legal and finan- c) The component which the American cial repercussions would be tremendous. Computer Company discovered has been dubbed the 'Transfer Capacitor’. ACC has THE TRANSPACITOR decided to refer to it as the 'Transcap' or Then the saga took a new twist when, on 'Transcapacitor', and as the 'T-cap' for 7 December 1997, the American Computer short. ACC has put on notice that it is Company announced in an "earthshaking" reserving these names, along with the press release that it now has its own exotic 'Transpacitor', as ACC trademarks and device derived from an unknown, possibly usage marks. It has several advanced fea- alien, source: a prototype capacitance- tures heretofore unidentified in the elec- based, transistor-like device, called a tronics industry, and it is unrelated to the "Transpacitor", that puts today's transistors _ transistor in composition. to shame. An edited précis of that press ACC claimed that the T-cap can store release follows. energy in 'levels' using a single microelec- a) In July of 1947, the Department of the tronic component device that could be manufactured as small as physics permits, having only four fundamental elements (the transistor has only three), to whit, as small as a small part of a micron at the molecular level, smaller even than a single transistor as used in today's microchips. ACC said that the energy levels the T- cap can store can represent mathematical values up to 10 to the 23rd power (10%), and can be recalled, all using only a single transcap device and a simple circuit design. The Transcap could revolutionise memory devices, as it replaces as many as 50 to 1,000 transistors used in common memory chips. A version of the Transcap can be used as a comparator to enable ‘analog Boolean mathematics’, as is commonly used in computers today. As a result, it could revolutionise the size of computers, reducing them to 1/50th to 1/1,000th of their size, or increasing memory capacity by 50 to 1,000 times in the same space as today's common memory systems. ACC said that the energy levels the Transcap can store could also be 'modulat- ed’, and could be configured to represent a ‘fragment’ of information, not just the bits and bytes stored in today's computers. To that extent it would operate much like a very short piece of recording tape. ACC's engineers, excited by their find, described the circuit as being 'similar in function to the synapses of the brain or the neuroganglial pill, yet much smaller, more precise and much, much faster’. ACC's staff indicated that the Transcap has very little heat transfer in its operation, hence it runs with less than 1,000th of the heat dissipation of conventional memory circuits, yet its read cycle (requiring a rewrite for refresh after read) operates in the sub-nanosecond speed range. Power from the Transcap is recycled from read to write cycles, hence it is ‘highly power effi- cient’, said the Disclosure, with little or no heat emission and no power loss, unlike the transistor. According to ACC, in addition to obvi- ous applications in computers, the Transcap can also be used as a high volt- age, unifrequency oscillator, with applica- tions in laser, radio, microwave, data com- munications and ultrafrequency devices. The Transcap possesses features which the transistor does not: it can store the oscilla- tory energy and discharge it in sub- nanosecond pulses at voltages up to 80 megavolts and frequencies up to near-light- wave ranges." THE TRANSPACITOR Then the saga took a new twist when, on 7 December 1997, the American Computer Company announced in an "earthshaking" press release that it now has its own exotic device derived from an unknown, possibly alien, source: a prototype capacitance- based, transistor-like device, called a "Transpacitor", that puts today's transistors to shame. An edited précis of that press release follows. a) In July of 1947, the Department of the 60 + NEXUS FEBRUARY - MARCH 1998