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From: mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu (Michael A. Covington)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Re: Question about Vacuum Tubes.
Message-ID: <1991Jan11.051423.16498@athena.cs.uga.edu>
Date: 11 Jan 91 05:14:23 GMT
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In article <CKN+#9$@irie.ais.org> danr@ais.org (Daniel Romanchik) writes:
>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.

I wrote the passage that Bob Myers quoted (i.e., the passage with the
maximum number of >>> above), and I do feel old, and I'm only 33.