If the battery is good, the LED flashes. This simple tester uses an LM3909 integrated circuit. We found this configuration in an old documentation.
This is an old test circuit for integrated TTL counters, feeding a Nixie tube, common at the time....
This old oscillator using germanium transistors has a high impedance headphone as inductor to...
This preamp with several inputs using germanium transistors from the time was found in Japanese...