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Old 05-15-2012, 12:42 PM
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Originally Posted by peverett View Post
I have some Motorola 19 inch B&W portable sets. They loved using oddball tubes for some reason, not sure why(except maybe they got cheap prices on them). I also have some RCA sets of the same kind and of the same era, they tube line up is pretty standard, although with series string filiments.
Motorola seemed to use 6BL8's versus the 6GH8/6U8/6EA8. I wonder if there is an interesting story behind tube selection like patent infringements. etc?
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