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mick wrote:
Do you think any current ss devices will still be manufactured & sold in
hundreds of thousands in 2069?

The 2N3055 has been around for perhaps 40 years, and there's no reason why
it shouldn't continue to be available.

Small signal discreet stuff is disappearing because of SMC technology.
Life moves on - at least in some fields.

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*I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be without sponges.

Dave Plowman London SW
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"mick" wrote in message
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On Fri, 05 Nov 2004 18:01:20 +0000, Mike Gilmour wrote:


6L6's were very popular especially guitar amps..

They still are - over 65 years after the original version appeared. Far
too good for guitar amps though - at least the early versions were. I'm
not too sure about the C versions - I think there may be sound quality
sacrificed to get more out of them.

Do you think any current ss devices will still be manufactured & sold in
hundreds of thousands in 2069?


Nope.

Just because summat's old doesn't mean it can't still do a job perfectly
well.

For instance, the Forth rail bridge was designed and built a long time ago
to handle about 2 x 300 ton trains a day travelling at about, wot, 50 mph?
Today it carries 200 x gawd knows how heavy trains a day travelling at about
70 (?) mph.....

(Not to mention the dozens of brick viaducts doing pretty much the same
thing!)

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In article , Keith G
writes

"mick" wrote in message
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On Fri, 05 Nov 2004 18:01:20 +0000, Mike Gilmour wrote:


6L6's were very popular especially guitar amps..

They still are - over 65 years after the original version appeared. Far
too good for guitar amps though - at least the early versions were. I'm
not too sure about the C versions - I think there may be sound quality
sacrificed to get more out of them.

Do you think any current ss devices will still be manufactured & sold in
hundreds of thousands in 2069?


Nope.

Just because summat's old doesn't mean it can't still do a job perfectly
well.

For instance, the Forth rail bridge was designed and built a long time ago
to handle about 2 x 300 ton trains a day travelling at about, wot, 50 mph?
Today it carries 200 x gawd knows how heavy trains a day travelling at about
70 (?) mph.....

(Not to mention the dozens of brick viaducts doing pretty much the same
thing!)






Beg to differ I think the forth bridge has permanent speed restrictions
placed thereon....
--
Tony Sayer

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Keith G wrote:

For instance, the Forth rail bridge was designed and built a long
time ago to handle about 2 x 300 ton trains a day travelling at
about, wot, 50 mph? Today it carries 200 x gawd knows how heavy
trains a day travelling at about 70 (?) mph.....

Every time I've seen a train go over the Forth Bridge, it's been travelling
slowly - more like 30mph. As for 200 a day, no way it's that much - might
see two or three during a two-hour sail. That said, the bridge is apparently
something like 9 times stronger than it needs to be for the job it's doing.


--
Wally
www.artbywally.com
www.wally.myby.co.uk

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"Wally" wrote in message
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Keith G wrote:

For instance, the Forth rail bridge was designed and built a long
time ago to handle about 2 x 300 ton trains a day travelling at
about, wot, 50 mph? Today it carries 200 x gawd knows how heavy
trains a day travelling at about 70 (?) mph.....

Every time I've seen a train go over the Forth Bridge, it's been
travelling
slowly - more like 30mph. As for 200 a day, no way it's that much - might
see two or three during a two-hour sail. That said, the bridge is
apparently
something like 9 times stronger than it needs to be for the job it's
doing.


OK, **** it - transfer all those 'statistics' to the Welwyn viaduct
then.....

(Fekkin' smartarses....!! :-)

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On Fri, 05 Nov 2004 17:39:45 +0000, Stewart Pinkerton wrote:


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

What, you like your music destroyed at source *and* delivery? :-)


Now augmented the sound by connecting a ss powered sub to one channel... :-)

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