Well, B-52 Stratofortress are early fifties design. In service at lest
up till 2050. ;)
The Russian dekatrons: My guess is they were made as spares for the
forces. I believe US was/is doing the same. Not to mention that the
vacuum technology is so much more immune to nuclear attack (or so I was
told, never verified it myself).
Marcin
On 16-Mar-16 08:47, gregebert wrote:
I bought a few spare A-101's and at least one had a 1992 manufacturing date.
So I'm wondering what could the former Soviet Union have needed with
such old technology in the 1990's ? I would have expected that they
would have replaced all their dekatron equipment by then, so even spare
tubes should not have been needed. Or, am I entirely wrong and they
continued to use 1950's era technology for another 30-40 years ?
Or perhaps was there rampant waste & excess that old factories kept
churning-out obsolete devices, only to store them in warehouses, just to
keep workers employed ?
Too bad the soviets didn't make tons of CD47's........
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