26 Apr
2016
26 Apr
'16
10:49 a.m.
On Apr 26, 2016, at 1:34 PM, Swift Griggs
<swiftgriggs at gmail.com> wrote:
...
Just about everything on that page is drool-worthy or cool in some extreme
way. That crytograph does indeed rock and "The Inertial Navigator Platform"
looks like an artifact from The 5th Element. What's more incredible about
that machine is she didn't rescue it... she *made* it, along with almost
all that other stuff. Outrageous!
I like http://www.tatjavanvark.nl/tvvd/viewer223.html . I have that tube and bits of a
radio (original) that uses it.
That tube is interesting: it's the world's first integrated circuit. Yes, a
hollow state integrated circuit. I describe it that way because it is a complete
subsystem (in this case, a complete 3 stage audio amplifier) rather than just something
like a dual-triode tube where the connecting components are still external.
paul