22 Jan
2004
22 Jan
'04
7:08 p.m.
On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 21:40, der Mouse wrote:
It's an RCA reference book from 1963, and it
contains a lot of data on
various types of vacuum tubes and semiconductor devices of the day,
from vacuum tubes still in use today like the 6L6 I think I saw
mentioned recently to picture tubes (even a few colour types) to tube
types I've never heard of like "nuvistor" and "novar".
If the cover sez "RCA Receiving Tubes" it's a reasonably available book,
and even reprinted. There's a number att he bottom, RC-18 or something
like that, there's versions up to RC-39 (or whatever the prefix is). If
it's some obscure industrial types the data could be hard-to-find.
I have a lot of non-receiving tube data available in original (sic) form
at http://wps.com/archives/tube-datasheets/index.html, and a bunch of
semiconductor datasheets at http://wps.com/archives/index.html, all
indexed by device number.
What with the ads you say it has it's likely not just an RCA tube
manual. I wouldn't want to part with it either, lots o'pretty pictures
and cool tech culture stuff.
There are a
number of cross-reference tables of various things, indexed by various
useful things. There is a pile of somewhat similar information about
semiconductor devices (though a good deal less in terms of pages in the
book) and a number of pages on batteries. There are then several pages
of ads for devices like multimeters and oscilloscopes and signal
generators, ending with a calendar for 1963 and a few pages of
address-book. There are a few mildly interesting one-page things, like
one giving a number of RCA sales offices, complete with phone numbers
like "WHitehall 4-2900".
I would take a good deal of persuading to part with the book itself.
But if anyone is interested in data from it, including scans of various
portions, drop me a line.
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