This circuit is from a 1976 Motorola CMOS manual. It can be implemented with modern Darlingtons like those in the Texas TIP series. The load current depends only on the Darlington transistor.
Today we have more compact solutions. This is from a Radio Electronics magazine from October 1990....
This filter was found in Texas Instruments documentation from the 1980s. The circuit uses a common...
16 commercial test circuit for tubes and transistors appeared in Radio Electronics magazine in...