[sdiy] Tube on a Chip from early 80s

[harry]

OTOH... maybe your dad and you were both
hallucinating... bad Mushrooms on that pizza perhaps...
:^P

(only  kidding I remember it too... shit now its gotta be
an alien conspiracy or something... ?)

H^)  hary

GothGeek Sysadmin wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 09:24:17AM -0400, Terry Michaels wrote:
> > The smallest vacuum tube that was in commercial production was RCA's
> > Nuvistor, AFAIK.  It's not a whole lot bigger than some of the early metal
> > cased transistors.  Example: 6CW4.
>
> This was substantially smaller then a nuvistor.  I called my dad this morning
> and he remmebers the artical too so I was hallucinating which makes me
> feel better, but he didnt offer to dig up the issue for me.  Perhaps
> when I go back and visit I'll find this...
>
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