Yes. Exactly! Last night there was a flakey problem with the 15-bit parallel data bus that connects to all of the tube driver latches. There was a stuck bit. Had to disassemble everything and eventually found a bad solder joint on one of the ribbon cables I made up 24 years ago! Problem solved. But during the troubleshooting, at one point I had to unplug the entire right side of the array and carry the assembly of those 8 tubes into the kitchen to set it down in a safe place on kitchen table while I worked on other parts of it, chasing that stuck bus bit. As I was carrying the aluminum channel with the 8 tubes and sockets, I thought to myself this is now a couple thousand dollars worth of tubes! Jeez when I got them they cost 11 bucks each and I thought that was very high. We are now in hyper-inflation guys! News Flash!
On Monday, May 27, 2024 at 1:06:10 PM UTC-4 Mac Doktor wrote: > > On May 27, 2024, at 12:54 PM, Leroy Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > > Can do more and get it even less, but that means BUYING ICs. > > > At leas they're not $200 apiece like certain Nixie tubes. > > > Terry Bowman, KA4HJH > "The Mac Doctor" > > https://www.astarcloseup.com > > “...the book said something astonishing, a very big thought. The stars, it > said, were suns but very far away. The Sun was a star but close up.”—Carl > Sagan, "The Backbone Of Night", *Cosmos*, 1980 > > > -- 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/d78bd5b0-981e-47ce-aaeb-b3cfa1aa98fdn%40googlegroups.com.
