[Boatanchors] Tube data

Philip Atchley beaconeer at sbcglobal.net
Tue May 24 02:03:17 EDT 2005


Hi,

I guess that if a person had enough of these critters they could build a 
genuine "BOATANCHOR" computer, but I think you'd have a tough time running 
Windoze XP on it ;-)

73 de Phil,  KO6BB
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>
> The other, a 6687/E-91H is a dual control heptode used in computers.
> Since tube based computers were before my time, what actually were these
> two used for?
>
> ****According to Mullard,the 6687/E91H/EH900S was used as a "gating" valve
> (tube) in early computers.
>
> There are no subs that i could find in any of the tube bases for these two.
>
> A 7062/E-180CC is a twin triode used in computer applications also.
>



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