Vintage info from the days of vacuum tubes

Herein you will find a collection of vintage engineering texts, vacuum tube datasheets, and other obsolete information, presented free of charge and without annoying advertisements.

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Oddly enough, I have some tube meep, including my Geiger counter.

This is great. I got into electronics

... at the very end of the tube era. The mathematics of circuit design with tubes is WAY simpler than for solid state because they are controlled by voltage instead of current. There are a few audio purists out there who still greatly prefer the hum of a tube to the hiss of a transistor.

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  • Dec05 '11

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Carlos agrees

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Did a short stint working on tube amps. I thought anything that uses a strap of leather for a circuit board couldn't be that difficult to repair. They are easy to work on, but the art is in making them sound right. I realized you need to know electronics and play guitar to be a good amp tech.
So much for that, only thing I play is the radio.

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I want to give the award for the best speech, ever, to Alex Lifeson. I think he found Ozzy's dealer.
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Context is everything. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaGKxAgCguU
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The drummer from Def Leppard's only got one arm!
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The drummer from Def Leppard's only got one arm!
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The drummer from Def Leppard's only got one arm!
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The drummer from Def Leppard's only got one arm!
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RIP http://www.lolserver.net/ like 6 months ago. :(
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on Why Is It So Hard To Quit Smoking?: We calculated the+
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Bob Welch is DED by a shot to his own chest.
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on The Cost Of Masculine Crime: Oh, DO tell us+
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We called them meep Floss.
BeachGoat
We called them Wrist Rockets in my day
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i got me one of them thongs. i'll post a pic later.
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http://www.cafepress.com/+classic_thong,5384613
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0 miles, 0 feet of climb, 72 degrees, 2 hours on a couch
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105 miles, 8500 feet of climb, 100 degrees, 7 hours on a bike
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on The Cost Of Masculine Crime: Wasn't this about+
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Twelve hours driving around goat tracks on a fire ground and three hours travel each way to get there and back home..I am knackered.
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