>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,
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at
xenosoft.com