Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: The Natural Philosopher Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2025 11:06:49 +0000 Organization: A little, after lunch Lines: 32 Message-ID: References: <20250227080310.0000604d@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2025 12:06:50 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="c89ad4050218ed4c1da999d73e6dde27"; logging-data="1383898"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19gUUMmk3BTVqGuLExVqb4EDHyHjMU9Ww8=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:fUO/SQJeboYmqntOAxKTgqFiXPM= Content-Language: en-GB In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2497 On 10/03/2025 05:18, rbowman wrote: > On Sun, 9 Mar 2025 20:57:13 -0400, c186282 wrote: > >> China still makes some audio tubes ... as does some plant in the >> Czech Republic (made BY HAND). Here and there, some people or old >> shops still have big boxes of tubes - many still good or never used. >> Gotta FIND 'em though - eBay sometimes advertises a stash. > > They are no longer labeled Svetlana but I believe some audio tubes are > still manufactured in Russia. > Wasn't it 'Sylvania'? Oh... those are made in the USA. > https://shop.ehx.com/category/tubes-vacuum-svetlana/ > > I don't know if they're NOS or current production. Loads of valves are in current production. Mostly in the USA -- When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it. Frédéric Bastiat