You just made me flashback on a memory of 1967. Our early 1960s Phillips TV had gone out, and we figured out which vacuum tube it was that had gone bad. It was all black at the top and cold, where the others were warm.
I trekked across the street to the convenience store; they had a large rack of all kinds of tubes. I found the right one, paid for it, took it home, plugged it in and the TV worked!
40 years later, the house where we lived has been torn down (probably 15 years ago), the convenience store was boarded up probably 25 years ago, and that whole neighborhood is a ghost town.
I wouldn't even know where to go to find a vacuum tube any more.
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You just made me flashback on a memory of 1967. Our early 1960s Phillips TV had gone out, and we figured out which vacuum tube it was that had gone bad. It was all black at the top and cold, where the others were warm.
I trekked across the street to the convenience store; they had a large rack of all kinds of tubes. I found the right one, paid for it, took it home, plugged it in and the TV worked!
40 years later, the house where we lived has been torn down (probably 15 years ago), the convenience store was boarded up probably 25 years ago, and that whole neighborhood is a ghost town.
I wouldn't even know where to go to find a vacuum tube any more.
Yup, I'm old, too!