Vacuuum tube digital circuits (50 year rule)

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Thursday 31 August 2006 04:27 am, Stan Barr wrote:
> Roy J. Tellason said:
> > Anybody having any vacuum tubes they don't want,  I might be interested. 
> > I can't offer much of anything for them,  but if they're gonna get
> > tossed...
>
> Just for informational purposes:  12AU7s (and 12AX7 and 12AT7) are still
> available new.  You probably won't like the price, but they're still in
> production - us electric guitar players use them,

Along with 6L6 and maybe 5U4 and some other numbers for output tubes,  no 
doubt.  To get that "Marshall sound"...   :-)

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