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If Royal Enfield made computers they would probably have valves, occupy the space of a garden shed and come with a comprehensive owners manual (written in plain English). They would be the direct descendants of those developed at Bletchley Park by Alan Turing, wouldn't be continually "up-dating" themselves for no apparent reason and not fall prey to viruses. Nor would there be any gobblydegook jargon associated with them. They would be built on a steel frame and encased in mahogany,walnut or oak. And maybe, just maybe, I would have some tiny bit of understanding of them.

I imagine it would be an updated Charles Babbage "Babbling engine"



If you ran it too fast, nuts would drop out of it



(bit like Tornado last night as it was getting dark in the middle of a country lane GRRRR!)

The Royal Number-cruncher comes fully equiped with a slimmed down home-brew version of Linux.

Nothing wrong with valves Wilf. Some modern top quality hifi has reverted to valves because they offer a much smoother, steadier flow of electrons.

Too right Eddie. Especially with guitar amps.

David Gilmour still uses Telefunken V72 valve mic preamps amps in his studios, wouldn't use anything else, and as for the stockroom of EL 34 and many other valves... Looks like Mullards warehouse!

When I was a kid in London and the radio blew up I can remember going with my uncle to an electrical shop in Dalston Junction with the valves which were plugged into what seemed to me a huge machine to test the valves

Who is David Gilmour?

Pink Floyd guitarist/vocalist.

Mullard made the best tester, just insert the card for the correct valve type and presto!



AVO made some good ones. You had to look the valve number up in a book and then set the 9 numerical dials before testing.