Quothe William Donzelli, from writings of Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at
10:01:45PM -0500:
> materials. One interesting side effect was that submini tubes lost their
> sockets - the things were soldered right into the circuits, as the sockets
> became the most failure prone components.
One could always design some sort of spring-loaded sockets for them in
order to make them as useful as real tubes/valves. Without sockets,
circuitry containing them would be as annoying to repair as circuits
using non-socketed ICs.
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