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Old 06-11-2008, 12:57 AM
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Originally Posted by kbmuri View Post
It would be a real accomplishent to actually convert a tube TV to view digital signals with tubes. More than replacing 13 capacitors and a brightness knob, I suspect.
To make a digital tuner and decoder, it would probably take maybe 5000 tubes, if you use solid-state memory. To add tube-type memory, add 256,000 (or would it be 256,000,000?) more tubes.
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