Re: Technik r'Us(? to Aleksander)

[John Graham <jgraham1@erols.com>]

Paul R Anderson wrote:

> Hey, I heard an interesting fact about vacuum tubes a while back.
> It goes like this.  The biggest consumer of vac. tubes in the world
> is the U.S. govt.  It seems that a few of its less important entities
> are still using primarily vac. tube computers.  The one I remember
> from that list was Air Traffic Controllers.

The power output amps for radars and microwave transmitters for the
militaryare all tubes. And the U.S. has one of the biggest armys and
navay around makes it true.


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> Paul Anderson, Cheyenne, WY  Private email:AndersonPaul@juno.com
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> On Mon, 27 Oct 1997 15:01:25 CDT "Al Powell" <apowell@agcom.tamu.edu>
> writes:
> >About vacuum tubes....wanna hear a very brave and foolish statement?
> >
> >"I bet I'm the only one on this list who personally owns TWO vacuum
> >tube testers!!"
> >
> >It's true.....I do.
> >
> >Now I'll find out Phil has one under his spare tire.....
> >
> >
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