[AT] generator = ee

[Thomas O. Mehrkam]

If you knew what a FET was you are younger than Me.

BiPolar transistors where the vogue. I do not remember learning about 
FET's. But it has been a long time.

My first engineering Job was converting some Peanut Sorter machines from 
Vacuum tubes to Transistor electronics. Planter Peanuts had a couple of 
factories full of these Vacuum tube machines and wanted them refurbished.

I sure would of loved to had access to some decent FET's for that 
project. I got rid of all the tubes except for the Photo Multipliers. I 
tried Silicon sensors but at that time there were none that would work 
without changing all the optics.

It was a great first project. I was able to use a lot of my Tv Repair 
experience in reverse Engineering the Vacuum tube ckts.

You do remember having to repair TV's don't you.

Chris Britton wrote:
>> From: "Larry D. Goss" <rlgoss at evansville.net>
>> Subject: RE: [AT] Generator--doing funny things
>> .  In some respects it's very
>> refreshing to know that there are still some engineers out there who can
>> work with things that not controlled with silicon chips.
>> Larry
> 
> 
> I started college for EE but changed major to CE a little over halfway 
> thru.
> 
> I can remember a bit of slang we used for old style 'tubes' .. we called 
> them 'glassfets'..
> 
> Soundguy
> 
> 
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