tube technology and EMP

[Randy McLaughlin]

From: "Heinz Wolter" <h.wolter at sympatico.ca>
Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 12:09 PM
> wasn't there some urban-tech legend about the Americans getting
> hold of a Cuban MIG fighter and laughing at the low-tech electronics they
> found?
> Purportedly - the Russians were using tubes! ..that are claimed to be EMP
> proof.
> EMP as in nuke-you-lar bomb (some important guy pronounces it like that!
> bizzare..)
>
> Now, perhaps tubes could be EMP tolerant, but they wouldn't be radiation
> tolerant,
> would they? After all, isn't that how Geiger-Muller rad counter tubes 
> work?
> Any mil-space-design spooks out there worked with  rad-hard technology?
> I've read  4000 cmos is the wrong thing  use for your home-made nuke
> countdown unit,
> but that RCA1802s fared better in early OSCAR and other satellites...
>
> h
<snip>

The Russians were right in keeping tubes well beyond what we did.  That's 
how they got to venus!

There are many areas tubes go well beyond what can be done in solid state.

Randy
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