16 Jun
2011
16 Jun
'11
7:10 p.m.
On 6/16/2011 7:02 PM, Brent Hilpert wrote:
In computing (not talking about audio here) I
don't think there was much
debate about valves vs. transistors. Transistors were pretty quickly
embraced for computer hardware when manufacturing and reliability were
sufficient for the application.
But how soon one forgets, that with out the humble crystal diode
many of the electronic brains would never have been built.
> Relays vs Valves.
Also could not tube like a VFD been made to handle digital signals
with a non linear plate curve rather than as display device?
Ben.
PS. I'm out, all I have is two punched cards and a tribble.