26 Mar
2006
26 Mar
'06
11:06 a.m.
On 3/26/2006 at 6:30 PM ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk wrote:
Or, in electronics slang, "bottle" or "jug". :)
'Bottle' is slang for any glass vacuum device (including valves and
CRTs). I've seen the convention that 'valve' is a set of electrodes
including the cathode and anode while 'bottle' is a glass envelope that
contains one or more valves. That is, a 12AX7 (ECC83, etc) is one bottle
but two (triode) valves.
-tony
I like
the old "picture tube" better.
What, even when it's being used as part of a Williams memory?
[Sorry, couldn't resist ;-)]