8bittech

joined 1 year ago
[–] 8bittech@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

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

[–] 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!

[–] 8bittech@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Are you one of those moron who points at a garbage man and says, "Stay in school, or you'll end up like him" all the while he's making more than you?

[–] 8bittech@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago

Hey, hey, you get back here

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