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Vacuum Tubes

Comments focus on vacuum tubes, including nostalgic references, jokes about reverting to them amid modern tech limitations, historical context, links to related articles, and discussions of their use in audio amplifiers, EMP resistance, and potential revival via vacuum transistors.

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bloopernova • Sep 2, 2024 • View on HN

Apologies, I meant a vacuum tube:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_tube

tantony • Sep 18, 2021 • View on HN

That's vacuum tube territory.

msie • Jun 8, 2010 • View on HN

Time to break out the vacuum tubes!

feld • Nov 6, 2014 • View on HN

Nice try, but I still use vacuum tubes

petepete • Feb 26, 2025 • View on HN

I hope vacuum tubes are involved somewhere.

wredcoll • Sep 3, 2025 • View on HN

Oh god, just like vacuum tubes.

m463 • Jun 20, 2019 • View on HN

Depends if the vacuum tubes are shielded. ;)

neonate • Mar 27, 2022 • View on HN

http://web.archive.org/web/20220327154828/https://spectrum.i...

layoutIfNeeded • Jun 19, 2021 • View on HN

Have you heard about vacuum tubes?

isolli • Oct 17, 2022 • View on HN

Just a word of caution: isn't working with tubes dangerous, due to the high voltage?