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From: a186@mindlink.UUCP (Harvey Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Magnetic amplifiers? [was Re: Mercury delay lines]
Message-ID: <2072@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jun 90 02:50:04 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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    Speaking of old technologies, in A Few Good Men from Univac,
 Lundstrom says(Page 22):
    "Magnetic amplifier circuits were thought for a brief time
 to be the most suitable replacement for vacuum tubes in computers.
 They were superseded by transistors before much design was done
 with them."

    I have never heard of this technology before. Anybody got the facts?
    <-Harvey

 "History repeats itself; historians repeat each other."

 Harvey Taylor      Meta Media Productions
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