The Ominous Valve
Hugh's Ominous Valve Works is a site I stumbled across quite a while ago, then promptly forgot about until this link to valve ephemera, posted at PCL LinkDump, jogged my memory.
Hugh's site is an obsessively skewed look at all things vacuum-tubish; old boxes, a goof on non-transistorized supercomputing, and best of all, The People's Logo Page, where you'll see my original webpage mascot, who I dubbed Mr. Atomic. Turns out that he was actually the logo of a corporation from the 1950s called Robotron. I orginally found this image painted on a big sheet of plexiglass at a swap meet in Oakland about 6 years ago. Prior to finding this page, Mr. Atomic's true identity was a complete mystery.
Also amusing to an oldtimer like me is this tribute to EBEN, the surrealistic star of !Jardin Mécanisme, one of the oldest, hoariest webpages still in existence.
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I used to have 1959 Edsel Ranger and one of the things I remember most about that car was the tube radio. It had a unique pleasant sound to it and I kind of liked the little wait for it to warm up. Wish I had kept it.
Posted by: Fritz | October 28, 2004 9:30 PM
I have an antique radio/78rpm record player with a Magic Eye tuning tube in it, as well as an old Fender Super Reverb amplifier. You just can't beat the warm sound of old tube amps.
Posted by: MrBaliHai | October 28, 2004 11:52 PM