Wouldn't take much work to convert them to solid-state circuitry.
2 seconds sound clip from the The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:02:23.840 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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[...]
- Reports from security indicate that the source of disturbance came from here.
- If it weren't for that disturbance, we would've never gotten the animals back.
- Look at this thing. Its a TLW-728.
- Right. If I'm not mistaken, he's the prototype.
- They only made one of these. They were great, but impractical. Operated on tubes.
- Wouldn't take much work to convert them to solid-state circuitry.
- Hey! He'd make a great exhibit for the new science museum.
- Oh, no. It's a cathode tube. The WFC-11-12-55. They're impossible to find.
- Aah! For cord's sake! Hasn't anybody in this dorm heard of a surge protector?
- Wow!
[...]