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Originally Posted by Tubejunke
It's funny; even the other techs joke about my love of what I call REAL electronics. They say things like your stuff is before electronics existed. Meanwhile they often can't even solder. They don't think about what makes something work (or not work). They just change parts. Can't read analog meter scales or understand the multipliers; yet claim to be educated in electronics. But that's what the schools are putting out in the world these days. Not to say that all techs are this way; mostly the young ones.
I also get that funny look when I talk about vintage electronics or my collection, but let me bring in a nice old radio or piece of test equipment and many times people are very interested if not amazed the same way I am. So keep the dream alive folks because it's never coming back. It's up to us to preserve the equipment AND by the grace of God the knowledge that fades with each passing year. I fear that Ohm's Law will one day be seen as a relic or archaic and useless theory.
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The invention of the tube is what brought about the electronics era! Prior to that electrical equipment was for light, motors, and weak limited functionality Phone and telegraph/radio tellegraph use.
The tube ushered in complex circuit design and power signaling. Things like long distance phone and radio, electronic computing, video systems, radar, etc. all got their early life and key steps of their present advancement from the tube and the proliferation of cheap electronic parts it's applications created.