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To: Cirruslvr who wrote (58010)5/12/1999 11:14:00 PM
From: Tony Viola  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1572707
 
Cirruslvr,

I wouldn't know for sure, but I remember reading this somewhere - didn't the
original TVs require you to buy new vacuum tubes (or whatever they were called)
whenever they burned out?

Yeah, and the glass envelopes for the vacuum tubes were hand blown only in Czechoslovakia, and you had to have a motor-generator set in the back yard to run it. What planet did you just move here from?



To: Cirruslvr who wrote (58010)5/13/1999 12:03:00 AM
From: Yousef  Respond to of 1572707
 
Cirruslvr,

Re: " ... didn't the original TVs require you to buy new vacuum tubes (or
whatever they were called)"

Cringe ... Your "age" is showing. Vacuum tubes came in a number of varieties
(triodes, tetrodes, pentodes ...) ... These were very easy to test
and replace. Problem was that the "packing density" was very, very low ... and
cost per switching element was very, very high.

Make It So,
Yousef


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