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Kaiser-Machead
03/25/09

In reply to How Vaccuum Tubes Are Made and Used, Explained in 1942
Those were the days. The days when a TV was a huge plastic wood-grained box with a tiny skyline of vacuum tubes sending that picture show through the Cathode ray into a porthole screen the size of the palm of your hand. People in sepia tone would sit around and watch in amazement while this hunkering dinosaur sputtered and blinked like a robotic cyclops.

*In 1950's voice*

AAnnd here we - have John Ma-honey, working tirelessly to bring you blogspeak n' good cheer over the intertubes. Godspeed Johnny, we await your - next entry.
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Monty
03/25/09

@Kaiser 'Won't Play Crisis' Machead: I just love the use of beakers in the making of an electronic gadget. You know it has to be good because they test for the highest quality ingredients in your high-tech gear.
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GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE
03/25/09

In reply to How Vaccuum Tubes Are Made and Used, Explained in 1942
In Watchmen, they had Nixie Tubes in the countdown mechanism for the IFG, and they were so beautiful.
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