Tube filiment voltage ???

KA4HJH ka4hjh at gte.net
Tue Jan 4 08:29:04 CET 2000


>How do I know this?
>1) I am a volunteer at the Computer Museum History
>Center.
>   www.computerhistory.org
>2) I am currently retubing their small piece of
>ENIAC with
>   the correct tubes............453 of them in a
>single rack.
>   (You can see a picture of it in the November
>issue of WIRED.)
>3) I have prepared a computer tube exhibit for the
>museum, showing
>all kinds of these special tubes. You would be
>amazed to see how many
>types there were.......hundreds, some very exotic.
>4) Have also been writing a series of articles for
>Vacuum Tube Valley
>magazine about tube computers.
>
>Does that qualify me?


OK, you're in our secret club...  ;)


BTW, do you have any EXTRA exotic, perhaps non-working tubes you 
could send me? (especially if they're really funky looking). I'll 
glady pay the shipping.

I figure pieces of ENIAC aren't up for grabs at this point so I'll 
settle for that.  8)

Terry Bowman, KA4HJH
"The Mac Doctor"

ICQ: 45652354



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