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I remember playing with my father's collection of tape recorders when I was young and one of them had such a "cat's eye". Maybe that's where my love for glowing phosphors started.

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My father had one as well, an old Magnecord unit packaged into a wooden case with transport and preamp, with the preamp having one of these tubes. Nevertheless, it was also fitted (perhaps by the dealer) with a proper VU meter. I learned the basics of recording on that, which served me well at a variety of times.

Naturally, his FM tuner from that era also had a horizontal magic eye tube.

Old electronics had so much sovl.

Might be dating myself by not being up to date on the latest slang or abbreviations, but what is "sovl"?

It's largely 4chan "look what they took from you" cultural panic newspeak, either ironically or unironically.

"sovl" has been variously used to describe LaserDisc, summer camp, bench seat trucks and the McRib.

It's used to describe things that have soul.

Surely there must be more to it than that? At least some sort of connotation that "soul" lacks? Otherwise why use "sovl" instead of "soul"?

soul but using the roman v, I think. I've seen it before with cvlt that way

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