The value of the stocks displayed on the tubes has gone up even more than the tubes themselves :)
On Monday, May 27, 2024 at 10:31:55 AM UTC-7 Leroy Jones wrote: > 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/6aba3253-c6b5-4c8e-b89d-c027ed7944edn%40googlegroups.com.
