Inside The Marconi Mark II
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That’s one hell of a lunch box.
The new hires would get sent down to the local Thrifty Drug Store with a paper bag full of tubes to test them…
in that part of teh contry it would have to have been “London Drugs”
How did they ever make all that old stuff work? It’s a wonder.
Never worked on anything this small worked on a 2.5 kilowatt VLF solid state module which went in a VLF solid state megawatt which was never sold it was mothballed.
RCA Lancaster was famous for production of the image tubes used in commercial cameras even when receiving tubes were used.