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From: georgep@vice.TEK.COM (George Pell)
Newsgroups: rec.audio,sci.electronics
Subject: Re: In defense of solid-state devices
Message-ID: <1949@vice.TEK.COM>
Date: Mon, 5-Oct-87 12:32:26 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct  5 12:32:26 1987
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In article <4155@pyr.gatech.EDU>, kludge@pyr.gatech.EDU (Scott Dorsey) writes:
> In article <1941@vice.TEK.COM> georgep@vice.TEK.COM (George Pell) writes:
> >How about a nice FET in a glass envelope!!!!
>    Hm..   It's almost like a nuvistor in reverse.  We could call them
> 'Oldvistors.'  Sell a lot to high-end audio people.  Make a lot of
> money, then retire to the Bahamas and buy a Kenwood.  Yeah...

All right!  You contact the glass blowers, I'll get a hold of Motorola.
Anybody know where we can get some octal sockets?  The price on these
things have got to be right, say $250.00 each, or no one will buy them.

geo