I suspect that the spark guys had similar thoughts about the new triode vacuum tubes in the 1920's. Fragile glass tubes that they probably didn't fully understand, yet. I took an electronics class in 1967 and tubes were still the main focus. We did play around with transistors, and managed to melt several leads. We didn't need any Optivisors in those days.
73, Rick Dettinger K7MW On Jun 3, 2011, at 8:39 PM, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote: > Lo, many years ago (1950's) I said that I didn't particularly like > working > with transistors either. They were so tiny and fragile. Vacuum tubes > were so > friendly and they made a beautiful glow in the dark. Besides, many > technologists pontificated that transistors would never be able to > work at > radio frequencies, much less develop useful power there. > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
