Compactrons: Advance in Tube Design October 1960 Electronics
World An article titled "One Receiver - All Bands" that appeared
in the January 1963 Popular Electronics was a single tube
design, but the trick to using a single tube was that the it was
actually three tubes in one - a 6AF11 compactron. It contained
two separate triodes and a pentode within the same glass
capsule. A modern equivalent would be to use an IC package that
contains three or more opamps in the same package. This article
from the October 1960 edition of Electronic World reported on
the engineering behind compactrons. May 1967 Electronics World
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