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Re: [TowerTalk] Vacuum tube 100 years old today

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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Vacuum tube 100 years old today
From: "Ward Silver" <hwardsil@centurytel.net>
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 11:58:52 -0800
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I'll bet it only had one nut in the shell...

Hmmm...would that make it "a salt weapon?"

73, Ward N0AX

> Maybe that's why the one I launched from Vandenberg only made it half way
> to Kwajalein?  ;-)
>
> Joe
> WDØM
> Colonel, USAF (Ret)
>
> At 11:08 AM 11/18/2004, Alan C. Zack wrote:
> >One of the projects I worked on at the former Rockwell Intl (now part of
> >Boeing) was the MX Missile project.  Down the hall from us was the
> >Minuteman labs.  Going to the Minuteman Labs was like going to a
> >museum.  The Minuteman guidance system used peanut tubes in it's
circuitry.


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