My college electronics professor told us young guys, this was in the 70's,
the definition of a tube.

A tube is a transistor with a light on inside so that the electrons can
see where they are going.


>
> Boy you guys do remember the good old days when a tube would fix 80% of the
> radios and TVs of the day. I will have to say that I too had a crystal radio
> that had the toilet paper tube coil. At the tender age of about 6 or 7, I
> lost the crystal. BUT, not to fear, I remember reading in my "All About
> Books" about those new things called transistors. They were made of the same
> stuff that the crystal was... Soooo, I made my first transistor radio.
> Depending on how I configured the E-B-C leads across the place where the
> crystal went, got me different stations. Yes, the good old days...
> Boy the trip down memory lane... Just glad I didn't make a wrong turn...
>
>         Regards,
>         Scott Decker
>
>

                Regards,

                Jerry Schwartz, CID
                IPC Certified Interconnect Designer
                "May the Schwartz be with you"

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