A 2N3904 will show similar avalanche behavior and is still widely available.
But, really, I just took the opportunity to talk about Jim Williams and his magnum opus that is AN47!
But, really, I just took the opportunity to talk about Jim Williams and his magnum opus that is AN47!
Sadly, such great technical documentation exists no more. The companies that make such products are no longer your business partners, but they are adversarial entities, whose only goal is how to confuse and to fool their customers into paying as much as possible for products whose quality is as low as possible.
Educating your customers about how to better use your products is no longer a business goal. Another current thread on HN is about the fear that the huge decline in the quality of technical documentation during the last 3 decades will be accelerated by the replacement of professional technical writers with AI.
I've found ADI still has some great educational material, although that's partly because they've been better at maintaining their webpages from the 90's and 00's, not because they're putting out much new material.