Re: When The Sun Brings Darkness And Chaos

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Subject	Re: When The Sun Brings Darkness And Chaos
Date	Sat, 9 Apr 2016 17:22:13 +0000 (UTC)
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Fabian Russell <fb@zen.info> writes:

>On Thu, 07 Apr 2016 19:19:02 -0500, Sam Wormley wrote:

>> 
>>    Modern electronics is used because it is orders of magnitude lower
>>    noise, more efficient and smaller that vacuum tubes. Get real.
>> 

>We are talking about the robustness of vacuum tube electronic
>with respect to EMP.  The vacuum tube circuits of yesteryear
>could withstand EMP much better than could today's semiconductor
>based technology.

>Get smart, Sammy.

The Soviets used vacuum tubes in their radios and other electronics in
their fighter jets and other war machinery for two reasons: 1) So an EMP
from a nuclear war wouldn't disable them; and 2) They didn't have that
much technology to produce semiconductors and the West wouldn't sell them
to them.

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When The Sun Brings Darkness And Chaos Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2016-04-06 12:20 -0500
  Re: When The Sun Brings Darkness And Chaos jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-04-06 17:58 +0000
    Re: When The Sun Brings Darkness And Chaos Fabian Russell <fb@zen.info> - 2016-04-06 22:53 +0000
      Re: When The Sun Brings Darkness And Chaos jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-04-06 23:22 +0000
        Re: When The Sun Brings Darkness And Chaos Fabian Russell <fb@zen.info> - 2016-04-07 09:22 +0000
          Re: When The Sun Brings Darkness And Chaos jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-04-07 20:15 +0000
            Re: When The Sun Brings Darkness And Chaos Fabian Russell <fb@zen.info> - 2016-04-07 22:48 +0000
              Re: When The Sun Brings Darkness And Chaos jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-04-07 23:19 +0000
              Re: When The Sun Brings Darkness And Chaos Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2016-04-07 19:19 -0500
                Re: When The Sun Brings Darkness And Chaos jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-04-08 01:43 +0000
                Re: When The Sun Brings Darkness And Chaos Fabian Russell <fb@zen.info> - 2016-04-08 22:53 +0000
                Re: When The Sun Brings Darkness And Chaos moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) - 2016-04-09 17:22 +0000
  Re: When The Sun Brings Darkness And Chaos Sergio <invalid@invalid.com> - 2016-04-06 16:55 -0500
  Re: When The Sun Brings Darkness And Chaos Wally W. <ww84wa@aim.com> - 2016-04-07 00:03 -0400
    Re: When The Sun Brings Darkness And Chaos benj <none@gmail.com> - 2016-04-07 00:15 -0400
      Re: When The Sun Brings Darkness And Chaos jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-04-07 04:36 +0000
        Re: When The Sun Brings Darkness And Chaos benj <none@gmail.com> - 2016-04-07 02:30 -0400
  Re: When The Sun Brings Darkness And Chaos Double-A <double-a3@hush.com> - 2016-04-07 12:44 -0700

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