[cctalk] Re: DEC and Asbestos

[Paul Koning via cctalk]

> On Jul 29, 2026, at 12:12 PM, Carey Schug via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> 
> wrote:
> 
> i wondered, and ai confirmed, that vacuum tube computers likely
> contained asbestos, but suggested in the vacuum tubes, so probably not
> available unless there was destruction of vacuum tubes involved.  

I don't believe that.  I have never seen and can't imagine a vacuum tube with 
asbestos.  What you will find in many small vacuum tubes is mica -- typical 
receiver tubes (which is what you'd see in a computer) have the elements 
mounted between two small sheets of mica.  But asbestor is porous and fibrous, 
there isn't any use for that in tubes I can think of.

Just another AI hallucination.

        paul