On Thu, 04 Sep 2003 14:36:25 -0700, Lizard Blizzard
wrote:

I think you have that backwards. Back then, the radio and TV sets were
still using 5U4 TOOBS for rectifiers, whereas the electrical world
already had equipment with SCRs up to the size of hockey pucks that
could handle up to 1200 amps (http://www.cehco.com/sda.htm), and 1N1184
series of 35 amp stud mount rectifiers were common in equipment


That could be. I was just a young pup in the 60s, but I remember the
diodes were the top-hat kind that didn't fit into lamp-saver sockets.
I don't recall seeing anything other than variacs for lamp dimmers
either.