[NJARC] Changing Times

[Jim Whartenby]

Yes, definitions continue to change over time.  But a CRT is still a vacuum tube even if the rest of the display is solid state.

What I find curious is that one of the good old US of A's top exports is, of all things, vacuum tubes!  This has been so for several years now and no one seems to think that this is odd?  But there is no tube manufacturing of any consequence in the US.  So what is the skinny?

Information is hard to find but my guess is that this is the result of the recycling of old computers, monitors and TV sets.  The "tubes" we are exporting is the recycled electronic junk that, for the most part, was made off shore and is now going somewhere else!
Thoughts?
Jim


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It appears that the term "tube TV"now  means a TV with a CRT , as opposed
to a TV that uses vacuum tubes instead of transistors or ICs.

I have seen the reference in a few places, but tonight the father of my
son's friend said that his son reported that we had watched a movie on an
old "tube TV".

RF
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