The tubes were nice and really made it a lot easier to work on and repair
things. I also miss them. I used to work on radios and tv's, but have since
gone on to other things.
----- Original Message -----
From: Sysadmin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, November 07, 1999 8:48 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Way back when...... was some other topic
> 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
> > >
> --
> Normal=boring x 100
