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Re:Glowing mercury thyratrons: inside a 1940s Teletype switc... by CamperBob2 on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @03:19AM (#17957758)
Because you can't turn off the power, you can't generate inductive spikes, so you can't pull the basic trick that make a switching power supply go

So what's a charge pump? Chopped liver?

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