Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site panda.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!mlf From: mlf@panda.UUCP (Matt L. Fichtenbaum) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Vacuum tube shortage Message-ID: <353@panda.UUCP> Date: Fri, 8-Mar-85 08:55:10 EST Article-I.D.: panda.353 Posted: Fri Mar 8 08:55:10 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Mar-85 06:20:15 EST Distribution: net Organization: GenRad, Inc., Concord, Mass. Lines: 19 [...] The increasing proliferation of semiconductors means that less and less new equipment is being made using vacuum tubes. It is likely that replacement tubes for existing equipment will become scarcer and harder to get. People will take to stealing tubes from existing equipment. Thus the "bulb snatcher" will be supplanted by the "valve lifter." -- Matt Fichtenbaum "Our job is to rescue fires, not put out your cat."