tegendemuur
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About the non-backbreaking guitar amps that could have been. Sorta...
"One could imagine, had the transistor not been invented and we were instead trying to continually shrink vacuum tubes to fit into settings like this, that we might have landed in a similar place. This use case would have eventually become the accelerant for technology as a whole, and there’s a chance that we might have figured out a way to make those tiny vacuum tubes even smaller."
Via: https://tedium.co/2025/10/02/subminiature-tubes-transistors-raytheon-history
"One could imagine, had the transistor not been invented and we were instead trying to continually shrink vacuum tubes to fit into settings like this, that we might have landed in a similar place. This use case would have eventually become the accelerant for technology as a whole, and there’s a chance that we might have figured out a way to make those tiny vacuum tubes even smaller."
Via: https://tedium.co/2025/10/02/subminiature-tubes-transistors-raytheon-history
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