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From: myers@hpfcdj.HP.COM (Bob Myers)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Re: Question about Vacuum Tubes.
Message-ID: <17660136@hpfcdj.HP.COM>
Date: 2 Jan 91 17:28:53 GMT
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>Tubes act like FETs, with cathode=source, control grid=gate, and
>plate (anode) = drain. That means that with a triode tube, you have
>those three pins, plus two pins for the heater.

Oh, God, am I starting to feel old.  Anybody else remember the books/magazine
articles which began, "FETs are like tubes, with the source = cathode...."

(And I'm not even all THAT old yet.  Sheesh.)


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