[BC] Old Farts

[Ronald J. Dot'o Sr.]

I started my electronics training for nine months, six hours a day, in 1960
@ Keesler AFB, MS.

We were about the third class to receive transistor theory training, based
on the theory of moving "holes" in a semiconductor material.

We were given a lot of tube theory with tube charts and load lines and
amplifier designs.

We didn't have any mockups for doing any transistor training, we were just
taught the theory.

In the "Sets" maintenance portion of training where we got hands on training
on the sets we were to maintain everything was tube type.

The closest thing we got to solid state were selenium rectifiers.

Ron D, Salem, OR.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry Lamoray" <Lists at systemsstore.com>
To: "Broadcasters' Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2006 6:28 AM
Subject: Re: [BC] Old Farts


> My electronics training was in the Navy - 1966. We had 41 weeks of tube
> based stuff, then 1 last week of transistors with the promise that "you
may
> be seeing some of these in the future".
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jim Tonne" <tonne at comcast.net>
> > I clearly remember the conversation I had with a fellow who
> > said his class was the last one at (a prestigious institute)
> > which had courses on vacuum tube circuit design.
>
>
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