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Re:Can we survive technology? (1955) [pdf] by porknubbins on Saturday August 17, 2019 @10:39PM (#20727881)
Airplanes ran on vacuum tubes? Shit as a electric guitarist this would’ve terrified me though I guess whatever they used was more reliable and probably power cycled more responsibly.
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Re:Can we survive technology? (1955) [pdf] by mikeash on Sunday August 18, 2019 @12:16AM (#20728204)
I wouldn’t say “ran on.” It wasn’t a fly by wire system or anything like that. But plenty of electronic systems would have used vacuum tubes, such as radios and radar.
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