In 1979, Meshna was selling used pulls, without sockets, for $4 (inflation in the 1970’s was horrible then too). For $5, you could buy what they described as new unused tubes. I opted to spend $6 more for the six new ones. They are also branded Ultronics and still nicely individually wrapped in bubble wrap.
If I had to guess, they cleaned out an Ultronics repair depot of their stock. Somewhere there would have had to be replacement tubes on hand to service the displays. Яoßəят > On Sep 3, 2023, at 12:58 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > 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 a topic in the Google > Groups "neonixie-l" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/neonixie-l/daJQjXu81S0/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/26ec5606-ab7d-4aee-a72b-ddf56f80b358n%40googlegroups.com. -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/A79BEF55-2360-46E5-BB0A-9CC77484B062%40gmail.com.
