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From: Russ Blakeman <rhblake_at_bigfoot.com>
Date: Wed Mar 28 12:36:47 2001

Long time since I've heard vacuum tubes referred to as valves...

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> On Wed, 28 Mar 2001 06:35:40 -0600 Russ Blakeman
> <rhblake_at_bigfoot.com> wrote:
> > I had a crystal radio in my early teens that we built from a
> library book
> > and then I moved to a Hallicrafters multiband reciever w/ long dipole
> > antenna. I still have the radio but have to find the capacitor
> that blew and
> > doesn't allow audio into the preamp. Good thing I have the
> schematic, now I
> > just need time.
>
> Well, I can remember the days of 405-line TV here in
> England. We watched it on a valve set made by Pye (now
> part of Philips). By the time of the Moon landings we had
> dual-standard 405/625 and VHF/UHF sets. Oh, and BBC 2 was
> a new channel on UHF, 625-line only!
>
> I started in electronics with PNP germanium transistors,
> although a lot of valve radio and tape recording gear was
> still around. My idea of "high-tech" shortly after that
> was a 741 op-amp.
>
> I've just done a lecture where I showed people an
> acoustically-coupled modem (300 baud). I had to take an
> old phone along to show how it would fit, because no-one
> would imagine that now, with all phones being different
> sizes.
>
> "...and you try to tell the young people that, and they
> won't believe you!"
>
> --
> John Honniball
> Email: John.Honniball_at_uwe.ac.uk
> University of the West of England
>
>
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