Tom Bruhns wrote:
In a real diode, the change in slope is gradual with no sharp corners,
but if you could find a diode which looked like, say, 1000 ohms in the
reverse direction for all voltages and 1000.1 ohms in the forward
direction, it would still work as a detector, albeit a poor one.

Son, that's called a Selenium rectifier.

Goddam newbies.

Rob