16 Jun
2006
16 Jun
'06
8:37 p.m.
On Friday 16 June 2006 04:18 pm, Fred Cisin wrote:
Well, shoot! Ain't a vacuum tube really also a "hollow-state FET"?
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>but what
is a "solid state vacuum tube" volt meter ???
On Fri, 16 Jun 2006, dwight elvey wrote:
When they first came out with the FET volt
meters, they called them
solid state VTVM's. Of course this doesn't make sense but they were
only trying to indicate that these had the higher input resistance
similar to a vacuum tube input.
It was just marketing.
AH! The marketing people decided that an FET was a
"solid state vacuum tube"
I shouldn't have taken it so literally.
Thanks,
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com