This circuit was found in the December 1992 Radio Electronis magazine. R2 is an NTC, there is a MOV protector or NTC thermistor. The current depends on the thermistor used.
Today we have more compact solutions. This is from a Radio Electronics magazine from October 1990....
This filter was found in Texas Instruments documentation from the 1980s. The circuit uses a common...
16 commercial test circuit for tubes and transistors appeared in Radio Electronics magazine in...