Based on an ad in the May 1`973 Radio-Electronics, Meshna was selling them for $2.50 for a pair of tubes with sockets and driver board with HV transistors, or $1.25 per tube/socket/ckt board combo. These were clearly pulls from the recently decommissioned NYSE stock tickers, so they probably had already seen over 10k hours of service instead of being NOS.
On Saturday, September 2, 2023 at 6:12:57 AM UTC-7 Robert G. Schaffrath wrote: When B-7971's appear on eBay, they tend to sell for around $175-$200 each. Not that big a markup over the original price when inflation is taken into account. Of course most of the tubes being sold are used but still, factoring in 53 years of time for something no longer made, the markup is not that big. I am guessing that Ultronics was paying the $9.50/each ($76.83 - 2023) price for the quantities they were working with. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/26ec5606-ab7d-4aee-a72b-ddf56f80b358n%40googlegroups.com.
