17 Feb
2010
17 Feb
'10
12:30 a.m.
On Tue, 16 Feb 2010, Dave McGuire wrote:
On Feb 16, 2010, at 4:53 PM, Brian Lanning wrote:
Slightly related is the subject of tubes in radios. I get a kick out of
using tube radios. One big problem though is that there is no source of
brand-new tubes anymore. It's all new-old-stock. Tube-amp enthusiasts
have a ready supply of newly-manufactured tubes from a small variety of
eastern European makers, but those are almost entirely unsuitable for
making radios. I really wish some of these makers could be convinced to
make new signal tubes. I like my new-old Philco, but the fact that it
uses loktal tubes gives me an icky feeling when using it. Nobody is
selling AA5 loktal lineups on ebay.
--
David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
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The next question pertains to console
televisions. I'd like to find (much
to my wife's dismay) a console television like the one my parents had back
in the late 70s. I'd like to use it to play old video game consoles from
the 70s and 80s. I believe these were all vacuum tube sets though, is that
correct?
It is absolutely NOT correct...They were tube up until the early 1970s, but
were made in solid-state form (except for the CRT of course) for many years
after that. I purchased such a solid-state console TV, brand new, for a
family member around 1992 or so.