OT: PC Motherboard with a vacuum tube

I have a feeling that we are regressing into progression - having to use old but terrific technology to be able to make things better again. I had to actually search around to be sure it was even part of AOpen's site - and now that I see it's true I have to wonder where the heater current is going to come from (unless the big fat cap does that) and how much this is going to cost (I think I'm lusting towards one, just to say I have a tube computer that's brand new). I think the covers over the chips must be the shields but you'd think that one tube shield around the tube would work better, unless they wanted the tube cooled well. -> -----Original Message----- -> From: cctalk-admin(a)classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-admin@classiccmp.org]On -> Behalf Of Ben Franchuk -> Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 10:20 AM -> To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org -> Subject: Re: OT: PC Motherboard with a vacuum tube -> -> -> Joe wrote: -> > You gotta be kidding! It's not even April Fool's Day yet! -> >>Take a look at -> http://www.aopen.com/products/mb/Pax4b-533tube1.htm. The tube -> >>is used in an onboard audio preamp. -> -> I hope that is well sheilded. I bet that uses less power -> and runs cooler than the CPU. :) Once you have tried tube -> audio with high quality parts you never want to go back -> to cheap audio stuff again. -> ->