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**Posted:** Thu Aug 03, 2006 7:26 pm

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Bendover · Veteran Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 111 Location: San Jose

Maybe it isn't so much the functional circuts as so much it might be a person who by his work in the field either at a basic level of beginning research spanned the gamut from analog to digital. Or it might be one of the fathers of the computer from the early days ENIAC springs to mind

It isn't :Alan Turing one of the fathers of the computer

or Henry Ford (tried for the 12 volts a usual car voltage)

**Posted:** Fri Aug 04, 2006 2:34 am

Guin

well i can confirm it isnt:

**Posted:** Fri Aug 04, 2006 9:49 am

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My money is on it being someone with nothing to do with circuits or even physics. I'm sure the colour coding of the resistors is the key.

Maybe it's a little story (as the question suggests) - they acquired power (battery), had inspiration (light), met resistance (six times - although I can't explain the colours at the moment) ...

**Posted:** Fri Aug 04, 2006 10:31 am

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Bendover · Veteran Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 111 Location: San Jose

Hey its the story of Joe electron! he was king of his circuit but he used his power in a negative way and met massive resistance, failing to see the light led to a digital revolution where Joe became just one bit of information on the highway of life. The End

Had a thought at work, my story sounded like the Russian Revolution so I tried Nicholas Romanov on a whim

**Posted:** Fri Aug 04, 2006 10:37 am

EvilGenius

No card for me but did anyone try Otis Boykin? Or William Thomson? Perhaps Alexander Graham Bell or Antonio Meucci? Von's hint certainly points at Ohm though . . .

**Posted:** Sat Aug 05, 2006 1:00 am

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crovax1234 · Boot Joined: 20 Jul 2006 Posts: 46

Tried

**Posted:** Sat Aug 05, 2006 1:24 am

obrienk · Veteran Joined: 28 Jun 2006 Posts: 73

i tried

Erwo the Elder · Greenhorn Joined: 21 Jul 2006 Posts: 4 Location: Sactown

Tried:

**Posted:** Sat Aug 05, 2006 7:10 am

ramsfan

It's not

**Posted:** Sat Aug 05, 2006 10:08 am

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hendo77 · Boot Joined: 30 Jul 2006 Posts: 51

It's also not:

**Posted:** Sat Aug 05, 2006 10:46 am

obrienk · Veteran Joined: 28 Jun 2006 Posts: 73

**Posted:** Sat Aug 05, 2006 3:34 pm

ixalon

Maybe it's literally supposed to represent someone's life story (my guess would still be someone involved in electronics) with each circuit as a period in the person's life and each component an event? Or each circuit as an event and the components describing that event.

I can't see any other reason for the strange layout of resistors in series without other components between them and having more than one switch on a simple loop.

**Posted:** Sat Aug 05, 2006 4:45 pm

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Von's clue is

**Posted:** Sun Aug 06, 2006 11:07 am

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Guin

on a whim i have been researching and trying various freedom fighter / political activists.

so far found that it isnt:

**Posted:** Sun Aug 06, 2006 1:21 pm

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