To: Swordmaker
And it sounded better because it used tubes!
8 posted on
06/21/2018 12:55:34 PM PDT by
Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
(Don't touch that thing! Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a doctor and I won't touch that thing)
To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
28 posted on
06/21/2018 5:27:02 PM PDT by
YogicCowboy
("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra; Swordmaker
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And it sounded better because it used tubes! Not only that, when the calculations approach the limits of the data word length, tubes gently round off the numbers, rather than clipping and truncating, as transistors are wont to do.
Some say the tube behavior gives the numerical results a "warmth" that semiconductors just don't have.
34 posted on
06/21/2018 10:58:35 PM PDT by
dayglored
("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
44 posted on
06/22/2018 9:20:18 AM PDT by
stevio
(MAGA)
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