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From: rees@apollo.uucp (Jim Rees)
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Subject: Re: Heathkit TV on cable
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Date: Fri, 28-Mar-86 18:43:07 EST
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    You can order tubes from the ROBERT E. PRIEBE company (RCA) or the
    ELECTRONIC SUPPLY company (Sylvania), both of Seatle, WA.  Sorry, I
    don't have the addresses.  Radio Shack also sells some tubes.  Older
    tubes can sometimes be found by looking in the classifieds in magazines
    like RADIO/ELECTRONICS.

Why would anyone want to pay list price for a tube?  List on a 6AU6 is
up around $15 now, but I can think of half a dozen places to get them
for $.50 to $3.  I suspect that these bargains will be harder to find as
the years go by, and I am slowly building up a private stock.

Tubes may be getting harder to find, but remember that you can always
repair tube equipment.  In ten years, if the VLSI chip in your Sony TV
goes bad, you will have 30 pounds of expensive inert matter.  But 38 years
after its manufacture, my Hallicrafters TV is still repairable.  And the
Zenith color set in my living room, 20 years old, will still be fixable
long after your Sampo bites the dust.  Custom VLSI has ushered in the
age of the disposable TV set.