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To: Tony Viola who wrote (58012)	5/12/1999 11:26:00 PM
From: Cirruslvr	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572767

Tony - RE: "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." Ok...so vacuum tubes wasn't the proper term. Could transistor be the term I am looking from? RE: "What planet did you just move here from?" I'm from Earth. Are you from Uranus?

To: Tony Viola who wrote (58012)	5/13/1999
From: FJB	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1572767

Tony, 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? Early TVs DID use vacuum tubes. I remember watching my dad replace them when I was a little kid. Bob