Tubes
Jun 15, 2019 23:47:28 #
Neverlost99 wrote:
Have you ever thought about how much technology has changed in our lifetime?
Went in the USAF in 1965. Became an autopilot and compass tech.
My tech school taught basic electronics, tube style. Then came the C-141 and solid state for the first time.
Music sounds better with tube amps simply because music is not digital.
Bill
Jun 16, 2019 03:41:29 #
I was just showing my granddaughter a couple days ago as I was taking her to a gravel road to find rocks to paint, a building out in the country where my dad use to go to get tubes for the TV. He would take the tubes there to test them and get replacements and put them in at home.
Jun 16, 2019 09:22:56 #
Jun 16, 2019 12:53:00 #
B_meyer5.55NY wrote:
what year was that with the computer "room"???
1970???
1970???
Not sure who you were replying to, but in 1965, we replaced the Univac tube type computer at Univ of NC with a shiny new IBM 360. The Univac took the entire 1st floor of a large classroom building and the A/C plant to cool it was about as large. The 360 fit into one corner and had a grand total of 64 KBytes of (core) memory. We now have 5+ orders of magnitude larger memory (and CPU power) on our phones.
Jun 19, 2019 10:28:29 #
I dropped out of my masters program because they wanted me to learn to program on those little cards. Yeah I’m old
Jun 19, 2019 12:06:38 #
“I remember hiking a mile through the snow in leaky boots, just to get to school...”
— my Dad...
I’m thankful for modern technology. Now, if we can just figure out how to power everything with clean, renewable energy sources...
— my Dad...
I’m thankful for modern technology. Now, if we can just figure out how to power everything with clean, renewable energy sources...
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