Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!usc!samsung!caen!b-tech!ais.org!danr From: danr@ais.org (Daniel Romanchik) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Re: Question about Vacuum Tubes. Message-ID: Date: 11 Jan 91 01:10:28 GMT References: <1990Dec27.191949.9562@athena.cs.uga.edu> <17660136@hpfcdj.HP.COM> Sender: danr@ais.org Organization: UMCC, Ann Arbor, MI Lines: 15 In article <17660136@hpfcdj.HP.COM> myers@hpfcdj.HP.COM (Bob Myers) writes: >>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...." 8-). I had the same reaction, and I'm only 35. Dan KB6NU -- Dan Romanchik (danr@irie.ais.org, danr@m-net.ann-arbor.mi.us, 313-930-6564) "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." -- Ancient Engineering Maxim