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RE: A question about vacuum tubes

  Hakim Madjid wrote:

> >
>A yes, the good ol' transformerless All American Five. IMHO a evil plot
>by the consumer electronics industry at the time to electrocute it's
>customers...:-)...LOL!!!


Never understood why they switched the ground (ie chassis) lead of the 
power line.  This way if it was plugged in one way, the chassis was hot 
when power was on, if you reversed the plug it was hot when the radio was 
turned off.