[geeks] Re: *blink*

Joshua D Boyd jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Tue Jun 4 12:02:15 CDT 2002


On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 10:37:28AM +0200, roosmcd at dds.nl wrote:
> > http://www.aopen.com/products/mb/ax4b-533Tube.htm
> > 
> > This has *got* to be a joke.
> > 
> > (note audio output stage)
> 
> Don't be too sure, there are also some other photo's on the web of this 
>motherboard and it would be an expensive joke if they just mad a single board 
>without going into production.... although I would not be very fond of having 
> high voltages running on my motherboard (wasn't it about 300V for tubes?).

I'm thinking the pictures have been photoshopped.
 
> Where I worked we actually made tube audio, something called "Njoe Tjoeb". If
>you're bored, it's great fun reading a couple of reviews of it. But this was 
>just the assembly, not designing. Designing HF circuits was more fun :).

That CD player even looks almost affordable.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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