Well my grandpa called them "valves" but same thing.
I am glad he taught me about them and my great-uncle Vernon
who is also a tech taught me about them when I was about 7,
I really llike the sound that audio valves (or tubes) reproduce,
and even better the Raw power output of transmitter valves/tubes,
per unit. Even though they often require the cooling jackets
a good 200V plate voltage kind of valve can really
put out some raw VHF power on the 2 meter band.
I don't know too terrible much about tubes, as they kind of
cheated us in school but what I do know is that I liked
how they work and its kind of a shame that they don't
bring some of that raw power and warm sound back
for some applications.
I used to have an old Atwater Kent radio and it sure
ran nice, I took the top off of the metal cabinet so the
tubes could ventilate better, and to this day as far
as I know it still works.
On Sun, 07 Nov 1999, you wrote:
> Most of my audio equipment has these glass and mica thingies called "vacuum
> tubes". Very popular during World War 2, You know, the one where President
> Johnson freed the slaves.
> David P. Greenberg
> Bitco Electronics
> "In Service to the Recording Industry"
> **If a person with multiple personalities threatens suicide, is that
> considered a hostage situation?**
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sysadmin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Sunday, November 07, 1999 4:54 PM
> Subject: Re: [newbie] Way back when...... was some other topic
>
>
> >When I was in 8th grade, they had these "Commodore Pet"
> >terminals, networked together somehow to a central drive,
> >good greif that was an old system, and if more than one
> >person tried to access the central drive, it HUNG!
> >hehehe Not only was it a bug in the setup but a mistake.
> >
> >But by themselves the Commodore Pets were decent
> >little computers, by the way if anyone knows of these,
> >what in the world was the "Rom Rabbit" that could
> >be activated by typing 'sys*4096"?--aka "rabbitised"?
> >
> >On Sun, 07 Nov 1999, you wrote:
> >> I bought a Sinclair something or other long before the Times incarnation
> and
> >> couldn't get it to work.... so I bought a Commodore VIC-20 with 5K and a
> tape
> >> drive for about $500, summer of 92, eventually upgraded it to 32K.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Hugh wrote:
> >>
> >> > I had one of those too, You could add extra ram buy pluging it into the
> >> > back. A whole 16 k
> >> >
> >> > On Sat, 06 Nov 1999, you wrote:
> >> > > I remember the days of my Timex Sinclair T1000. A whopping 2k of ram.
> >> > > ----- Original Message -----
> >> > > From: Sysadmin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> > > Sent: Saturday, November 06, 1999 3:22 PM
> >> > > Subject: Re: [Re: [newbie] MS releases new Windows and NT Keyboard
> (humor)]
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > > > Wow, they taught us CPM in trade school, kind of reminded me of
> >> > > > DOS, it had a C compiler to build the executables and such.
> >> > > >
> >> > > > We were trained on the old Z80 microprocessor.
> >> > > > I also remember Centix, the old business unix then too.
> >> > > >
> >> > > >
> >> > > > On Sat, 06 Nov 1999, you wrote:
> >> > > > > >>Dating myself, but my first operating system was trsdos on a
> radio
> >> > > shack
> >> > > > > model
> >> > > > > I, back in those days the competition was between apple and
> trs-80.
> >> > > > >
> >> > > > >
> >> > > > > Rick<<
> >> > > > >
> >> > > > > Keep this up and I'll get my Amstrad 6128 out of the loft and
> start
> >> > > using
> >> > > > > CP/M again.
> >> > > > >
> >> > > > > John the Nadger
> >> > > > >
> >> > > > > http://www.goon.freeuk.com
> >> > > > --
> >> > > > Normal=boring x 100
> >> > --
> >> > Boling's postulate:
> >> > If you're feeling good, don't worry. You'll get over it.
> >--
> >Normal=boring x 100
> >
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Normal=boring x 100
