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From: mlf@panda.UUCP (Matt L. Fichtenbaum)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Vacuum tube shortage
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Date: Fri, 8-Mar-85 08:55:10 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar  8 08:55:10 1985
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[...]

   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."