[Hammarlund] Speaking of Tubes ...

[Guido Santacana]

I read somewhere years ago that they were developing ultrasmall tubes to be used in equipment that would survive a nuclear EMP. They were embedded into something like a microchip. Never heard from those again.

Guido Santacana

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On Sep 30, 2014, at 11:02 PM, Glen Zook <gzook at yahoo.com> wrote:

> There were some vacuum tubes, even smaller than a TO-18 transistor, that were being developed for extremely high frequency use.  However, I haven't heard anything about the project for several years.
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> Glen, K9STH 
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> On Tuesday, September 30, 2014 9:55 PM, Guido Santacana <gsantacanav at gmail.com> wrote:
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> What if... Solid state devices had not been invented back in the 50s. Tubes would have evolved into ....... Sub sub miniature tubes?
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> 73s
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> Guido Santacana KP4FAR
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> On Sep 30, 2014, at 3:45 AM, "Ross Stenberg" <k9cox at charter.net> wrote:
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> > All of this talk about tubes (specifically low power receiving tubes) makes me understand why they were superseded by sold state devices nearly 50 years ago.
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> >  73 Ross K9COX 
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