Abstract

Solid-state components have replaced vacuum tubes across the entire field of information processing, with the significant exception of the cathode ray tube, which looks unassailable. The only other field where vacuum tubes have retained a foothold is that high power transmission. The CRT is in a seemingly anomalous position — it handles information, not power, so why has it not been replaced yet? This article is an attempt to find some basic clues to this paradox, and to utilise these clues in an indirect attack strategy which might work.

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