Hello,
i do really like those fundamentals about OpAmp and everythign surrounding it, since practical issues you cannot learn from a textbook but need experience or listen to someone who got expirience. I did not yet watch this episode. But just want to contribute, since I am into doing analog digital design since 4 years now, and I did read and build a whole lot sensors, mostly transimpedance stuff, where inbut bias currents hit you pretty well, due to the huge gain you have to achieve, but anyway, what I did want to recommend for those who wanna learn more about OpAmps and their history:
I did read Bo Lijeks: Semiconductor History, pretty nice book also packed with a lot of anecdotes and stories not so much about Opamps but semicondurctor in general ( it has a whole chapter on Bob Widlar as well, which befor I didnt even notice, and I did study electronics enigneering so I guess probably less than 20% of all student know him after their diploma , which is kind of sad since he and his surround works really puts some life into some rather dusty studies)
The AnalogDevice *pfd is really readable as well, but what really did strike me is Hans Cammenzids little book about analog chips, for those who didnt know ( as myself) he is the inventor of the 555-Timer ( which Dave also did a episode about some month ago) and his book is really awesome to read, it explains everything in a very down to earth approach, its not packed with formula but with hands on data, so dont expect to really learn how, but rather understand why the OpAmp and semiconductors evolution took place and why we got OpAmps and their internal structure right now. Adn this is also explained in semiconductor levels , liek why is it important to not design big resitance in semiconductor material and so on, and on.
http://www.designinganalogchips.com/The book should be available free to download, his other book about the history of electron is also really interesting, I did read it as I read a lot bibliographies about guys involved with electrons, I like it to see how things evolve and those books pretty much do it.
And the last source is Analog circuit design by Jim Williams, it is a collection of big analog designers telling a lot of different stories about their life their thoughts about design, some talk about OpAmps, others about who to become an analoge designer, I think even Philbrick tells the story about his first OpAmp.
http://books.google.de/books?id=CFoEAP2lwLEC&pg=PR4&lpg=PR4&dq=ISBN+0-7506-9+166-2&source=bl&ots=4rnvpNfd1i&sig=KcS9lnSrBpleKfAYsaEKns528co&hl=de&sa=X&ei=IOVDU4-bBIjRsgbu64D4CQ&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=ISBN%200-7506-9%20166-2&f=falseISBN 0-7506-9 166-2
because I dont know if the link works, and there are quite some books with the same title but different content.
So thats it, i hope someone will be interested in any of this.
Have a nice week.