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From: johnr@videovax.tv.tek.com (John Reynolds)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Nostalgia
Keywords: tubes
Message-ID: <5781@videovax.tv.tek.com>
Date: 11 Apr 90 21:09:03 GMT
References: <908@gold.GVG.TEK.COM>
Organization: Tektronix TV Measurement Systems, Beaverton OR
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> 
> 	I received a sales flyer today advertising vacuum tubes for sale!
> 	Remember when you could 'shotgun' your TV with 6GH8's and 12AX7's ?
> 	Does anyone out there know of any equipment manufactured within
> 	the last 20 years which uses these things ?

Musical instrument amplifiers, notably Fender and Mesa Boogie still use
12AX7's in their preamp stages and 6L6's in the output stage.  Most of
these amps now use silicon rectifiers, although some guitarists claim that
5U4's "sound better".       

			   John Reynolds   NZ7J
			   Tektronix TV Division
			   Beaverton, OR