[TowerTalk] Vacuum tube 100 years old today

[Ward Silver]

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.