{"id":2768,"date":"2017-11-04T12:42:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-04T01:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2017\/11\/04\/the-ham-radio-thermatron-roots-of-silicon-valley\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T13:55:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T03:55:03","slug":"the-ham-radio-thermatron-roots-of-silicon-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2017\/11\/04\/the-ham-radio-thermatron-roots-of-silicon-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ham-Radio Thermatron Roots of Silicon Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/klystron_cutaway.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"302\" data-original-width=\"400\" height=\"301\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/klystron_cutaway.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p> <b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/Hack-A-Day%20had%20an%20excellent%20piece%20on%20tubes%20and%20Silicon%20Valley%20this%20week.%20%20Makes%20me%20want%20to%20get%20the%20book%20%22Secret%20History%20of%20Silicon%20Valley.%22%20%20%20https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2017\/11\/02\/silicon-valley-was-built-on-tubes-of-glass\/\">Hack-A-Day had an excellent piece<\/a> on tubes and Silicon Valley this week. Makes me want to get the book &#8220;Secret History of Silicon Valley.&#8221; <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b><a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2017\/11\/02\/silicon-valley-was-built-on-tubes-of-glass\/\">https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2017\/11\/02\/silicon-valley-was-built-on-tubes-of-glass\/ <\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p> <b>Note above the Klystron prototype mounted on a wooden board. These guys clearly had THE KNACK. <\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hack-A-Day had an excellent piece on tubes and Silicon Valley this week. Makes me want to get the book &#8220;Secret History of Silicon Valley.&#8221; https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2017\/11\/02\/silicon-valley-was-built-on-tubes-of-glass\/ Note above the Klystron prototype mounted on a wooden board. These guys clearly had THE KNACK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2769,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336,31,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-california","category-radio-history","category-tubes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2770,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2768\/revisions\/2770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}