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We'd toss them around like toys...tubes were tubes, nothing more. I felt the same way when I unloaded a box full of NOS 350Bs a few years back...it's just a well done 6L6. The buyers didn't think so, enriching me with thousands of dollars. Ditto for the 101A audio amps.

It does to someone like me who's studied Latin and Greek, yes.

I understand it perfectly.

I do miss those old days, not just for the old, 1930s through '50s vintage tube toll equipment, either. Everything was designed to maintained, everyone had a job, and the economy was good....not "good" like the Bushies and Wall St. lie about today, but REALLY good. Today, things are in bad shape, whether those living in it want to wake up and smell the coffee or not. The complex I worked in for years for both PT&T and AT&T had 1800 people working in it on any given day shift, with a couple of hundred on swing and graveyard. Now, that whole complex MAY house about 25 people max at any given time. Where did all those jobs go? Wally-Fart, Burger King, Starbuck's...the list is endless.

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