Remembrances of vacuum tube days
As a young teenager, I developed a love for electronics which became a lifelong love affair. In those days vacuum tubes were the norm and solid state devices such as transistors weren't in usage then....
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Been watching this thread, but haven't had a chance to reply. We got our first TV in 1952 or '53 when I was three or four years old. My dad had a WWII friend who kept stuff flying and fighting. He transitioned to the new technology. I started watching him work on our televisions. One of the first things he did was look to see if the vacuum tubes were glowing.
When I was about ten or eleven our TV quit working. I took the back off the TV and looked around. I saw a tube that wasn't glowing. I pulled the tube and convinced my mother to take me to 7/11 which had one of those tube testers. Sure enough it was bad. The clerk pulled a replacement from the cabinet underneath.
When my dad got home from work the TV was working. He said to mother you called me at work and told me the TV wasn't working. Mother told him the story. After that thay gave me lots of things to fix.
I transitioned into computers in 1968... The rest is history. I still fix stuff that should be pitched.
When I was about ten or eleven our TV quit working. I took the back off the TV and looked around. I saw a tube that wasn't glowing. I pulled the tube and convinced my mother to take me to 7/11 which had one of those tube testers. Sure enough it was bad. The clerk pulled a replacement from the cabinet underneath.
When my dad got home from work the TV was working. He said to mother you called me at work and told me the TV wasn't working. Mother told him the story. After that thay gave me lots of things to fix.
I transitioned into computers in 1968... The rest is history. I still fix stuff that should be pitched.
