On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Gary Lee www.vwrack.com <gary2a@telus.net>wrote: > Interesting conversation. Gets one thinking. > I am told that in the 70s there used to be tube testers and vacuum > tubes sold at the grocery store. Didn't have to go to the drugstore, just walked down to the basement, tested the tubes(s) and if bad reached over, opened the tube caddy and pulled out the new one. And I still had all that (and more) when we got around to selling all my fathers old electronics and instruments about 1985. Boy did the old hams and the antique radio/TV collectors jump on that stuff. |
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