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A 1953 Trans Documentary (It’s Not What You Think)

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42 Comments on A 1953 Trans Documentary (It’s Not What You Think)

  2. You wanna know what I think? I think you’re some kind of deviated pervert. I think General Ripper found out about your perversion, and that you were organizing some kind of mutiny of perverts. Now move!”

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  6. To be honest, a tube or transistor does not amplify anything. It is a switch, controlled by an input that varies the amount of current conducted between the cathode (filament) and the anode (plate) according to the value of the input. This varied, larger current flows through a load. In the case of audio, the small signal produced by a receiver or decoder can then be heard in a loudspeaker acting as the load. The British called vacuum tubes ‘valves’ because of this switch action.

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  8. A transistor has a BASE COLLECTOR EMITTER.A transistor is a current controlled device.A small flow of current between the BASE-EMITTER junction causes a much larger current to from COLLECTOR-EMITTER junction.A basic vacuum tube called a triode has a PLATE GRID CATHODE.A vacuum tube is a voltage controlled device.A small change in voltage on the grid causes a larger current to flow from PLATE to the cathode.A FET is a field effect transistor that mimics a vacuum tubes operation.

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  11. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1956 was awarded jointly to William Bradford Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain.

    Shockley, Bardeen & Brattain contributed far more to the world than most men.

    Giving obama an award of similar caliber must have them turning in their graves.

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  14. Yay 1953, the year that I was born. Anyone else remember the great Bell labs programs like Hemo The Magnificent (directed by Frank Capra) about the heart, blood and circulatory system that I saw in my HS biology class in 1968. And Keenan Wynn was an absolute hoot in that clip as Major Bat Guano in Dr. Strangelove. I still laugh at that clip all these years later.

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  15. Is that turbo encabulator anything like Calvin’s transmogrifier in Calvin & Hobbes? LOL, Bongo, that guy couldn’t have it said it better than Mr. Science or better yet Professor Irwin Corey. And only 750 million smackaroos, that’s quite a bargain for the gubmint.

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  16. I was one year old when this movie came out.
    TRANSconductance resISTOR.

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  19. BELL LABS WERE ACTUALLY SECOND! Cal ws first! Several EEs from Cal , angry that their employer put second rate Ee’s from MIT over them rebeled and formed Intel! The leader of this group, Dr. Moore was famous for 40 years because of “Moore’Law”~ #MIPs would double eery 18 months! Moore’s prediction was true from 1970 to 2000!

    Every Golden Bear is not a “Bush Republican”!

    IBM 360 was first “transmitter”computer! All first to use RAM!mBefore 36 member was “sequential”. If file you wanted was at ed of drum or tape you may wait mi together it! Ram got the oil in nanoseconds!

    Yep Im old!

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  22. Tubes are still popular for guitar amps and stereo equipment, although these days with DSP they can make solid state stuff where you can’t tell the difference. They’re also still used in high power transmitters.

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  29. I’ve not seen green, but a rather beautiful blue from an Ampeg amplifier. The head was stored in the speaker cabinet and you pulled it out and turned it over to sit on the cabinet. It had a “vibro” ckt with depth and time, and had a spring reverb that sounded fantastic. Spring reverb is usually harsh in something like a Fender amp, but Ampeg knew what they were doing.

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  30. My Uncle Tony had a reverb unit for his stereo system. I don’t remember what it was, but I remember it wasn’t splashy or harsh, and really did sound like an auditorium if it was turned up enough. Really good reverb is hard to find.

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  32. Thanks ΜΟΛΩΝ & Erik, I wish I could remember, but I believe it was used in a unique Bakelite encased radio from perhaps the 50’s (?) & would vary in intensity.

    I always felt it would be cool to use in a modern/throwback design.
    A real conversation piece.

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  35. Modern has gone back to tubes. I remember when very few amplifiers were tubed. And some of those were hybrid. They had 12ax7 input tubes to kind of fake what the input section was doing. Cascading, and whatnot.

    These days it is rather hard to find the DSP amplifier. Or maybe it is where I live.

    People have come to understand that recording digital through a digital chain gives dogshit. You can record digital shit on analog. Or you can record analog shit from a digital source.

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  38. Bad

    60years ago I learned Fortran on a 1401. then learned coco o a 36.
    I bet you Dad will know whatI just said.
    I was a “bean counter” by trade.

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  39. @Wild Bill AT 1:36 AM
    The purple color was probably an OC2 or OC3 voltage regulator tube in the power supply. They were Argon filled and ionized between 95 to 105 volts.
    Provided nice regulation for the 1629 Magic Eye tubes that had a green glow target. Really cool little tubes. Still have some in my RCA tube caddy.

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  41. Recording methods have changed. It used to be one man with a microphone who had to capture the entire orchestra. He would have to look smart during tunings and practice to find the best placement. And then the advent of stereo microphones. Now we need two tracks. And eventually we have panning. I’d go so far to say that panning had its roots in bleed. Bleeding of tracks taken at the same time, and/or head alignment errors. And LO! We have panning. Now we understand the error isn’t quite an error… but a positive boon for sound… and then we double track…

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