re: #376 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Vacuum tubes. How many hardware junkies these days even know what those are? I feel old, and I’m not even a child of the mainframe days (my first computer was an actual IBM-compatible PC).

Had that discussion the other day with a semi-pro musician who had just bought his first tube amp and an old engineer who is in our parish. It was a bit mind bending. The engineer couldn’t really quite understand why we 2 musicians loved the sound of pushing a tube beyond what it was spec’ed to handle. Overdrive!