On Fri, 05 Nov 2004 06:42:09 +0000, Stewart Pinkerton wrote:


'kin elle, you must be nearly as old as me! :-)

Maybe!

I was brought up on valves mainly - a lot of them rescued from old TVs cos
we could get them really cheap! The bloke from the local TV shop used to
turn up with a van full of old sets now and again, and I spent hours
unsoldering and drilling pop-rivets off the chassis to get the valve
holders off for my dad. I had to sort the resistors into old OXO tins for
him cos he was red/green colour blind. It may be all those early
experiences that have produced some sort of affinity with valve gear for
me!

I remember my dad buying his first transistors (the first I had ever
seen) as part of a radio kit. They were probably Newmarket, in the flat
squarish cans, and marked with green & yellow spots on top for AF types
and red/yellow (or was it red/white?) spots for RF. They were also rather
expensive and very electrically fragile!

Currently listening to the computer playing MP3s via a 6L6 "triode mode"
SE amp at the other side of the room. Things progress! ;-)

--
Mick
(no M$ software on here... :-) )
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