On Friday 14 July 2006 01:43 pm, Carl Lowenstein wrote: > On 7/14/06, Andrew Lentvorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > kelsey hudson wrote: > > > It seems as though tubes aren't really taught at all anymore -- old > > > technology? What about the subtle nuances that made tubes great? Those > > > second- and fourth-order harmonics that give the sound beauty and > > > warmth ... > > Possibly I have been aware of vacuum tube technology longer than both > of you put together. At least since 1952, when I decided that it > would be a good thing to learn, and spent a couple of months reading > _all_ of the back issues of Electronics Magazine from its founding in > the early 1930's up to date.
Heh, heh, Carl is a few years older than I am but my turn at this was in 1961 when I got hooked on electronics and discovered the MIT Radiation Lab set of books ... http://tinyurl.com/pmh5k This is a 28 volume set that described encyclopedically almost all that was known about electronics at the time. I probably lost a year of my life in those books. See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_Laboratory and http://tinyurl.com/jabe3 The amazing thing was that even in the early 60's an obsessed young fellow could still learn almost everything there was to know about electronics ... but then the transistor came along and integrated circuits and the field exploded and one was forced increasingly to specialize. BobLQ -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
