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??? They were already being called Vacuum tubes, when they were still special, in hand blown envelopes. the tubular envelope came later.
Yes, we know that you despise America, and all that it stands for. You've made that abundantly clear on all the other electronics newsgroups.
Where do they say that? The phrase is, "You pay your money and you take your chances."
Only your f****it idiots like GWB.
Hey, some of you are even quite decent people it seems !
Graham
Is that the US version ?
Graham
And whoever twirled a "cat's whisker" on a lump of galena discovered the point contact diode but didn't know it - it just magically worked. Like, who on earth would think of squeezing the contents of the swim bladder of a sturgeon into a beer vat on the off-chance it would make it clear quicker.
-- Diverse Devices, Southampton, England electronic hints and repair briefs , schematics/manuals list on
A drunken fisherman? ;-)
You think a lot like me. I've often wondered how things like you describe ever came to be.
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