I got my first board from Poly Paks sometime in the late 1970’s. Probably paid about $4 if I recall. One tube had shorted segments. I was about 15. Then in 1979 I decided to build a clock and bought three boards from Meshna Electronics. After I assembled that, I decided I would get spare tubes that were sold as NOS from Meshna. Bought six of them which I still have wrapped in bubble wrap. I have a total of seven in a carton along with the six in the clock. Also I still have the defective one that still lights up but has problem segments. Thinking of selling it as a novelty as it is not really useful for a clock.
On Thursday, December 3, 2020 at 11:46:10 PM UTC-5 nickja...@gmail.com wrote: > Yeah, that too. And register a whole lot of machine guns before May > 1986, and file mining claims, then patent claims to get the land > transferred to me before then too. And get someone to buy me a few B-17 and > B-29s right after the war. And a few 62 Corvettes, and a Ferrari 250 or > two... > > On Thu, Dec 3, 2020, 6:33 PM Charles MacDonald <cm...@zeusprune.ca> wrote: > >> On 2020-12-03 4:45 p.m., gregebert wrote: >> > Did anyone in this forum get their 7971's from PolyPaks a long time ago >> > (1970s/1980s) ? I recall they were inexpensive, and many were sold in >> > pairs along with the socket/driver board after being scrapped from >> > Lectrascan units. >> >> Good Old ETCO Electronics 464 McGill St. In Montreal. (store is long >> gone) Only got a couple of boards, which had the fingers broken off. >> and a bunch of the tubes, Forget the price but proably a couple of bucks >> (CDN) each. If I could send a message back in time, I would tell my >> former self to buy a few more, as well as some surplus 2A3, 6L6 and 6V6 >> tubes. >> >> >> -- >> Charles MacDonald VA3CPY Stittsville Ontario >> cm...@zeusprune.ca Just Beyond the Fringe >> No Microsoft Products were used in sending this e-mail. >> >> -- >> 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+...@googlegroups.com. >> > To view this discussion on the web, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/a614dcee-c540-e0f5-ca12-270f3c32a7d2%40zeusprune.ca >> . >> > -- 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/d5e2626f-f325-447c-89a9-df2ee9578449n%40googlegroups.com.
