[TriLUG] OT: local source for logic ICs?

[Ric Moore]

On 01/16/2015 04:31 PM, matt at noway2.thruhere.net wrote:
> When I was a kid, it was a common Saturday morning ritual for my dad to
> take the tubes out of the TV, go up to the local drug store, put them in
> the tester, buy some replacements, put the new ones in, and repeat a
> couple of times till the TV worked again.
>
> Then I remember seeing a 'solid state' TV around 1980 for the first time.
> I was amazed.

Zenith Works-In-A-Drawer! Man, that was the days! :) Ric



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