I have one on oder from my AOpen Center. I'll let you know how it works
in a couple of weeks.
James
Russ Blakeman wrote:
>I have a feeling that we are regressing into progression - having to use old
>but terrific technology to be able to make things better again. I had to
>actually search around to be sure it was even part of AOpen's site - and now
>that I see it's true I have to wonder where the heater current is going to
>come from (unless the big fat cap does that) and how much this is going to
>cost (I think I'm lusting towards one, just to say I have a tube computer
>that's brand new). I think the covers over the chips must be the shields but
>you'd think that one tube shield around the tube would work better, unless
>they wanted the tube cooled well.
>
>-> -----Original Message-----
>-> From: cctalk-admin_at_classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-admin_at_classiccmp.org]On
>-> Behalf Of Ben Franchuk
>-> Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 10:20 AM
>-> To: cctalk_at_classiccmp.org
>-> Subject: Re: OT: PC Motherboard with a vacuum tube
>->
>->
>-> Joe wrote:
>-> > You gotta be kidding! It's not even April Fool's Day yet!
>-> >>Take a look at
>-> http://www.aopen.com/products/mb/Pax4b-533tube1.htm. The tube
>-> >>is used in an onboard audio preamp.
>->
>-> I hope that is well sheilded. I bet that uses less power
>-> and runs cooler than the CPU. :) Once you have tried tube
>-> audio with high quality parts you never want to go back
>-> to cheap audio stuff again.
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Received on Fri Sep 06 2002 - 17:06:25 BST