as a guitar player, i approve!

FlashHarry: as a guitar player, i approve!

THIS

(particularly when the 'clean' channel is up to 9 or 11 and starts to break up in that magical way that just preamp tubes can't possibly compete with)

A series of them?

ArkAngel: A series of them?

And, in this case, little tiny dump trucks.

/little tiny

Didn't Asimov's positronic robot brains run on ultra-miniaturized tubes? If so, chalk up another prediction for ole' Isaac.

so maybe ipods will one day achieve superior sound quality by incorporating tiny vinyl records?

Nano vacuum tubes? I can't see that.

approves

FlashHarry: as a guitar player, i approve!

This, that, and thems up there.

There is nothing on Earth that sounds as delicious as tubes driven just over the edge of distortion.

Future? In the recording studio we never stopped using them.

Rent Party: FlashHarry: as a guitar player, i approve!

This, that, and thems up there.

There is nothing on Earth that sounds as delicious as tubes driven just over the edge of distortion.

I'm never going to give up my JCM-800 head... It's just too sweet...

Smaller vacuum tubes?! Bad idea!
I hate it when my vacuum's tube is too short and I can reach beneath the couch to suck up those stray popcorn kernels....

FlashHarry: as a guitar player, i approve!

As a ham radio operator, I approve!

My main HF radio has a tube driver, and tube finals.

You and your new-fangled vacuum tubes. Everyone knows that old transistor radios have the sound audiophiles love.

_{2060: You and your new-fangled quantum dots. Everyone knows nanovacs have the best sound.}

Gee, I don't think the audiophiles / musicians have chimed in yet, I wonder how they feel about this.

That's so "Steampunk"...

metallion: I'm never going to give up my JCM-800 head... It's just too sweet...

AC30 and fender deluxe reverb here (though i've had a marshall super bass 100 and jtm 45), so, THIS.

I'll be impressed when they use wax cylinders as a storage medium.

Past. Present. Future.

So will these now be put back into drug stores but be very very tiny?

dittybopper: FlashHarry: as a guitar player, i approve!

As a ham radio operator, I approve!

My main HF radio has a tube driver, and tube finals.

let me guess, Collins.

//k3lid

So, hipsters... it's come to this...

Kali-Yuga: Future? In the recording studio we never stopped using them.
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Vacuum tube pr0n thread?

Hell yes :)

My contribution (and one of my favorite microphones)

Kali-Yuga: Future? In the recording studio we never stopped using them.
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Recognize this?
Magnetron vacuum tube, used in every microwave oven.

leonel: So, hipsters... it's come to this...

It's even labeled with the ironic tag.

Silly hipsters.

Thelyphthoric: (particularly when the 'clean' channel is up to 9 or 11

asciibaron: dittybopper: FlashHarry: as a guitar player, i approve!

As a ham radio operator, I approve!

My main HF radio has a tube driver, and tube finals.

let me guess, Collins.

//k3lid

Kenwood TS-520:



/Old pic: Mic on the left is for an old computer, not the rig and I don't use the SWR meter or antenna tuner in that pic anymore.

//N2SOMETHINGsomethingsomething...

///You have now been favorited as a ham, so when we do another Fark QSO Party, I'll know who you are.

dittybopper: ///You have now been favorited as a ham, so when we do another Fark QSO Party, I'll know who you are.

Duh, I already had you favorited.

/More like N2DUMBASS

Anyone here remember nixie tubes?

Can't get those nice big, bright display numbers using transistors. They had 'em on the Loran Navigational aids we used on our ships back in the late '70s.
/we had hollerith cards, paper tape and reel-to-reel mag tapes too
//transistors lead to transtators, and transtators lead to multitronics, which lead to...

I said, no, Geri, the heating is the muthafarkin'...spring! This one here as soon as you start turnin' over the engine, it's supposed to pull it back when the vacuum starts. When the vacuum starts, nothin' to do with farkin' heat. Vacuum!

MBooda: //transistors lead to transtators



What a trans-tater might look like.

FlashHarry: metallion: I'm never going to give up my JCM-800 head... It's just too sweet...

AC30 and fender deluxe reverb here (though i've had a marshall super bass 100 and jtm 45), so, THIS.

Kustom has been doing marvelous things with their Defender line. Everything about them is great, except the name. Defender? Really?

MBooda: Anyone here remember nixie tubes?
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Can't get those nice big, bright display numbers using transistors. They had 'em on the Loran Navigational aids we used on our ships back in the late '70s.
/we had hollerith cards, paper tape and reel-to-reel mag tapes too
//transistors lead to transtators, and transtators lead to multitronics, which lead to...
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So, let me see if I get this right. First, we go from computers that are stand alone beasts back to dumb terminals working off of servers, then we go back to vacuum tubes.

Does this mean that my pencil tie and fedora are back in style, too?

Another famous tube with a very high power handling capability:




Back to TFA: This concept was ballyhooed back in 1990 (in the March, 1990 edition of Discover Magazine, to be exact.) They were hyping the same stuff: faster computers, radiation resistant hardware, etc. However, they were having trouble with electrons bouncing back off the plate and destroying the cathode (IIRC). Haven't heard a peep about it since, until now.

The tubes in my life:

Inside most nuclear warheads...

Worked around these in radio for years. They are about the prettiest things on earth.

FlashHarry: as a guitar player, i approve!

As a stereo geek, I thank you guitar players for keeping (foreign) tube production alive.

I'm currently using an HH Scott 233 integrated amp, but eventually I'm going to get my HH Scott LC-21 preamp and McIntosh MC30 power amp setup going. It's a fun hobby.

Kit Fister: So, let me see if I get this right. First, we go from computers that are stand alone beasts back to dumb terminals working off of servers, then we go back to vacuum tubes.

Does this mean that my pencil tie and fedora are back in style, too?


/better check to make sure your face isn't on the coins in your pocket

dittybopper: asciibaron: dittybopper: FlashHarry: as a guitar player, i approve!

As a ham radio operator, I approve!

My main HF radio has a tube driver, and tube finals.

let me guess, Collins.

//k3lid

Kenwood TS-520:

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/Old pic: Mic on the left is for an old computer, not the rig and I don't use the SWR meter or antenna tuner in that pic anymore.

//N2SOMETHINGsomethingsomething...

///You have now been favorited as a ham, so when we do another Fark QSO Party, I'll know who you are.

I have an TS-820 that was my first rig. I also bought an TS-830 but that one has been at the shop for a few months now. A couple of months ago I bough a Flex 3000, but I have not had the time to get it working the way that I want.

devine: I have an TS-820 that was my first rig. I also bought an TS-830 but that one has been at the shop for a few months now. A couple of months ago I bough a Flex 3000, but I have not had the time to get it working the way that I want.

Favorited as a ham for Fark QSO Party purposes.

MBooda: Anyone here remember nixie tubes?
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Can't get those nice big, bright display numbers using transistors. They had 'em on the Loran Navigational aids we used on our ships back in the late '70s.
/we had hollerith cards, paper tape and reel-to-reel mag tapes too
//transistors lead to transtators, and transtators lead to multitronics, which lead to...
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Of course. Still many, many surplus Nixie tubes available, Russia and Eastern Europe were producing them into the 80's in great quantity. AFAIK no one's been producing them since the 80's, but lots and lots of NOS (New, Old Stock) around for making neat stuff with.

Hopefully this will help save the military some money when the old vacuum tubes go bad on the VOR receivers.

My main rig:



1 12AT7, 2 7075's, 4 6L6GC's, 4 12" JBL's.

Bought it new in '71

MBooda: Anyone here remember nixie tubes?
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Can't get those nice big, bright display numbers using transistors. They had 'em on the Loran Navigational aids we used on our ships back in the late '70s.
/we had hollerith cards, paper tape and reel-to-reel mag tapes too
//transistors lead to transtators, and transtators lead to multitronics, which lead to...
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Yeah, built a nixie clock back in '04 or so. The way my old apartment was setup you could see my work bench from the front door. I had ordered tubes from some guy in Russia, when the mailman came to the door with a package covered in cyrillic, he notice a whole bunch of wires and electronic bits around a nixie clock I had not built a case for yet. He looked real worried until I said "No, no, it's a clock. Clocks count up, bombs count down."