I was in Lithuania in the early 90s, shortly after the exit of the Russians. There were factories there still making ICs and stockpiling them, even though the products they were targeted for were history. As I recall, they were making DEC VAX clones, and that is what the ICs were aiming for. Since I was working for IBM at the time, talking to the Ministry of Informatics about their grand plan to take our PowerPC motherboards, it was all very strange.
Mind you, their unemployment level was close to 0%. On Tuesday, 15 March 2016 21:47:14 UTC, 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........ > -- 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 post to this group, send an email to neonixie-l@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/6f69b122-1450-46ac-b7fd-94994730ecdc%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
