1966 Mag: Build NE-2 Neon Bulb Computer - scan available

[Pete Turnbull]

On 20/07/2007 00:06, Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 09:19 +0200, Holger Veit wrote:
>> woodelf schrieb:
>>> Peter C. Wallace wrote:
>>>
>>>> I think I just found their website whilst noodling around. They can 
>>>> make 2.5 million NE-2's a day, minimum order is 100K bulbs.
>>> I wonder if there are 1000 on this list that want a *New* 1966 
>>> computer. :)
>>> I am guessing $.50 each so $500K is a reasonable order size.
>> www.farnell.com, a larger distributor, offers them for 15€ per piece 
>> (11,20€ per piece for 100), so costs for a "new" 1966 computer will 
>> probably be today in the range of what was was paid for it in 1966...
> 
> That can't be right, 15EUR for a single neon bulb?

£6.15, it tells me on the website -- but it also says it is no longer 
stocked, and it was old Newark stock held in the US.  If you look for 
other neons on the Farnell websites, especially T2 size (which is what 
that part was) they vary in price from 9 pence (£0.09) to about 40 pence 
each.

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
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						University of York