tube CD player (was Re: sizes (was Re: vacuum tube computer))

From: Eric Smith <eric_at_brouhaha.com>
Date: Mon Feb 1 17:30:58 1999

Christian Fandt <cfandt_at_netsync.net> replied to my post about an
all-tube CD-player:

> And including a gaseous tube laser Eric? Remember, completely Hollow State,
> not Solid State! :-)

Of course. It would use a HeNe laser, just like the early laser video
disc players.

The part I haven't figured out is the photodetector. Even those early LD
players used a phototransistor for the detector.
Received on Mon Feb 01 1999 - 17:30:58 GMT