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From article <405@gvlv2.GVL.Unisys.COM>, by kleonard@gvlv2.GVL.Unisys.COM (Ken Leonard):
> In article <Nov.11.23.03.48.1989.3337@porthos.rutgers.edu> webber@porthos.rutgers.edu (Bob Webber) writes:
> * [re types of vacuum tubes used in ENIAC]
> *     4,200 6L6 Beam Power
> *     1,300 6V6 Beam Power
> well, for sure, neither if these is what one would call "low power consumption"
> but then...
> *       350 807 (Enlarged 6L6)
> I dimly recall ham transmitters that used a couple of these
> as final amplifier--at a plate power level of a couple hundred watts.
> Do I remember correctly, or do I have an advanced case of cranial decrepitude?
> What was ENIAC doing to need _that_much_ power in one stage of logic?
> Or did the builders include these just so they would have a place to fry
> their eggs in the morning?

Clock drivers, I'll bet.  A professor of mine worked on a 50's
Univac machine with 807 clock drivers.  ZZZAP!!!
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