[sdiy] Tube on a Chip from early 80s

[GothGeek Sysadmin]

On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 09:24:17AM -0400, Terry Michaels wrote:
> The smallest vacuum tube that was in commercial production was RCA's
> Nuvistor, AFAIK.  It's not a whole lot bigger than some of the early metal
> cased transistors.  Example: 6CW4.

This was substantially smaller then a nuvistor.  I called my dad this morning
and he remmebers the artical too so I was hallucinating which makes me
feel better, but he didnt offer to dig up the issue for me.  Perhaps
when I go back and visit I'll find this...

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