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What Do We Need to Know About Yesterday's Technology?

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What Do We Need to Know About Yesterday's Technology?
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RE: What Do We Need to Know About Yesterday's Technology?
July 9, 2015 at 1:05 pm
(July 9, 2015 at 10:40 am)vorlon13 Wrote: I'm collecting early calculators.  It's fun and interesting to me.

In High School I was taught vacuum tube technology (mhos and transconductance, grid bias and thermionic emission) and maybe I haven't used it much, but it gives me an understanding of the 'big picture' that freshly graduated techies these days do not have.

They're still used in high-power RF transmitters.
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RE: What Do We Need to Know About Yesterday's Technology? - by AFTT47 - July 9, 2015 at 1:05 pm

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