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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Those were the days. As a kid i played with tubes making amplifiers and repairing tvs. In my teens they came out with transistors and made all kinds of things. Then i signed up for Cleveland Institute of Electronics(CIE) home course. After i graduated from high school i got a letter from Uncle Sam. So i joined the Air Force and got into computers. They trained me on the Q-7 a tube and relay computer, never got to work on it. Ended up working for Uncle Sam for the next 47 years working on all types of computers and Audio/video systems and telephone systems. During that time i built a HeathKit o'scope and other test equipment from them.
