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Vacuum tubes ain't "transistor tubes" in any form, Ben. :wink:

Heaters 'n grids: super-het electron exciter valves, mebbe. :jester:
 
DrEntropy said:
Vacuum tubes ain't "transistor tubes" in any form, Ben. :wink:

Heaters 'n grids: super-het electron exciter valves, mebbe. :jester:
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Don't fergit' "Plates and Cathodes!"
 
ya got a point Doc. I was only referring to the task which they performed, not how they accomplished it. hehehehe. entirely different monsters. Like the similarity between SU carbs, and electronic fuel injection.
 
Wow.. Gotta be careful on that site Jay, I could spend hours parusing those intresting lists. Good stuff. Thanks
 
Banjo said:
Wow.. Gotta be careful on that site Jay, I could spend hours parusing those intresting lists. Good stuff. Thanks
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Could not agree more, Banjo. It's an easy place to get stuck.
 
Back in the horse and buggy days, my first computer was a Commodore 64. It was a super high tech machine to me at the time!
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Buried somewhere in the archives of my past adventures is a couple of shoe boxs full of 5 1/2 floppies I used in an external drive with it! And we did it all WITHOUT windows!
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PAUL161 said:
Back in the horse and buggy days, my first computer was a Commodore 64. It was a super high tech machine to me at the time!
jester.gif
Buried somewhere in the archives of my past adventures is a couple of shoe boxs full of 5 1/2 floppies I used in an external drive with it! And we did it all WITHOUT windows!
happy0001-1.gif
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Yup, had a computer lab full of 64s in grade school. Of course one of those 5.5s was the DOS boot disc. Hard drive? what's a hard drive? hehee. I remember taking a class on programming, and we made simple games, like pong and stuff, or mapped out the pixles to create simple pictures in DOS.
Yup! those were cutting edge! no more correction tape in the typewriter!
 
Need a replacement Zylog chip Ian? I have one here someplace. NOS. :jester:
 
So, if 256 handled NORAD, how much was needed for the first moon landing?
 
42?
 
:lol: Always a good fall back answer.
 
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