15 Feb
2008
15 Feb
'08
12:34 p.m.
Christian Corti wrote:
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, dwight elvey wrote:
Why even bother with tubes? Relays were pretty consistent by the turn
of the last century, weren't they? I mean, they're pretty inconsistent
in general, but they would have been consistent "enough" for use in a
computer, right?
Peace... Sridhar
I wish to make a correction. The tubes were
called audions and were
not made until 1906. Low gain made them hard to use for radio uses
"Audion" and "hard to use for radio" is a contradiction...