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RCA and the Vacuum Tube's Last Stand

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Tanj

Those 1961 "transistors" at the 20m mark were diodes.

Jack Beckman

Interesting, thanks for this niche history lesson. I had no idea RCA fought so hard to "save" the vacuum tube. I had heard that the Russians eventually pushed tubes well beyond the West due to having less access to transistor tech. BTW, Zenith is pronounced "Zee-nith."