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Anyone out there remember your vacuum tube theory?

I found this on another forum and thought it was interesting even though I don’t speak the language. Go to http://tinyurl.com/2tdgof . This triode reminds me of all of the 6c4 triodes we used in a ring distribution system to distribute signals to production work stations. The system was home brewed and the plates of the tubes ran orange. We used to replace them quite often until I modified the circuit slightly.

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1 year, 10 months ago (1 week, 4 days after post)

Boy, ron you are even older then me. I didn’t think they made computers with tubes (actually Mark II was all tubes wasn’t it). Was that pre-IBM 360/20’s? They actually amde a single tube computer Main/mother board recently. But the board had a one tube sound card amplifier on it. It wasn’t a one bit computer though.

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US | 1 year, 10 months ago (1 week, 4 days after post)

I even go back further than that. When I was in grade school I joined an armature radio club after school. The adults that guided the club had a slue of 4 and 5 pin tubes with sockets mounted on pieces of wood with fahnestock clips so that you could make simple circuits. They were excellent because filaments could be run from batteries and nobody could get seriously shocked from a 45 volt B battery. The ironic thing was one of the adults was a chief engineer for a company that made Hifi equipment and tape recorders. My first job in electronics after tech school was at that same company. I never asked for his help but I always wondered if he had a hand in my career there.

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1 year, 10 months ago (1 week, 4 days after post)

You know unless asked we would never know what other are capable of. Something else, why is it that most employers never seem to tap an employee “hobbies”? I mean some people know as much if not more then the “trained/schooled” .

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US | 1 year, 10 months ago (1 week, 4 days after post)

Actually I got involved in Data Processing because one of my hobbies was electronics. When the electronics industry went overseas I looked for a change in vocation. Luckily one place I applied was looking for someone with both a technical and computer back ground. When I started with the company it had just opened a branch outside of Chicago. They needed someone that could maintain a couple computer systems and be able to install cables and workstations. I made the transition from the electronics to data processing. I spent 20 years with them.

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