8bittech

joined 1 year ago
[–] 8bittech@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

That's about $15 too much.

[–] 8bittech@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Gen X ! Raised on hose water, neglect, and flaky tech.

[–] 8bittech@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Strands #217 “Got any bleu cheese?” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵

[–] 8bittech@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago

Fuck this country.

[–] 8bittech@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

She's keeping her options open

[–] 8bittech@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

He owned a lot of them and sold a lot of tubes every month, generating revenue. Not sure how much, but with solid state becoming more popular, the amount kept going down, so he sold. Not sure who the German company sold to, but I assume they went to a country that was behind the curve on technologies and still had a large number of tube electronics in service.

[–] 8bittech@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

Cleaning out the shop one day, we found a bunch of the old tubes. I kept some and mocked up a display but never finished it.

[–] 8bittech@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago (4 children)

I used to work at a TV repair shop, and the owner owned a lot of these in the surrounding 6 states. In the 80s, he sold them all to a German company for something like 1M, and the German company turned around and resold them for something like 6M 3 months later.

[–] 8bittech@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

I'm a fan of Peter Clines' books. He has an Ex heros series about superheros and zombies, very fun!

221
Max (lemmy.world)
 
 
268
-Sigh- (lemmy.world)
 
view more: next ›