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G6Tanuki · 23rd Jul 2016, 4:30 pm

Just out of interest - were any UK TVs ever equipped with Nuvistor front-ends?

I rather suspect not - by the time UHF TV became anything more than a curiosity here the world had moved on to transistors and was focussing on the likes of the AF139/239 and Texas Instruments' GM0290.

(One place I'd have expected to see Nuvistors used was VHF/UHF mobile-radio transceivers - but none of the Pye/Storno/Ericsson/Siemens/Marconi/Philips/GEC stuff I ever worked on used them)

23rd Jul 2016, 4:30 pm	#112
G6Tanuki Dekatron Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Wiltshire, UK. Posts: 13,996	Re: Earliest BBC2 Sets? Just out of interest - were any UK TVs ever equipped with Nuvistor front-ends? I rather suspect not - by the time UHF TV became anything more than a curiosity here the world had moved on to transistors and was focussing on the likes of the AF139/239 and Texas Instruments' GM0290. (One place I'd have expected to see Nuvistors used was VHF/UHF mobile-radio transceivers - but none of the Pye/Storno/Ericsson/Siemens/Marconi/Philips/GEC stuff I ever worked on used them)