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Originally Posted by AUdubon5425
My counter-argument would be this: How many people attending tech school today understand or are even aware of older technology? Life before the IC and even the transistor? I'd say very few. In fact, the few times I've bothered to stop at a TV shop and seek a part or schematic from a professional technician - well, I've generally been chided and sneered at for attempting something ridiculous like trying to repair a worthless p.o.s. fifty-year-old color TV.
My point being that if non-professional people who have an interest in this old junk and the capacity to learn aren't helped and encouraged, it'll all be lost history in thirty years because no-one will know what to do with it.
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When I took electronics at the local community college from '99-'01, we probably spent a total of 10 minutes on tubes. The first 5 minutes were discussed in solid state devices & circuits class and the discussion pretty much went like, "This is a tube, this is what was used before transistors, nobody but Bryan messes with them anymore, and they are obsolete technology that you don't need to be concerned with". The other 5 minutes was by another instructor in Electronic Communications class. He did talk briefly about how a tube operated; but, not much time was spent on the subject. Contrast that to the early '70's, when a friend went through the program with one of the same instructors. Back then, he said that tubes were the main topic of conversation and that little time was spent on solid state devices.