Howard Eisenhauer wrote:

On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:55:43 -0400, "Michael A. Terrell"
? wrote:

*Snip*
?
? A guy had a couple hundred
?2/3" vidicon cameras for a couple dollars each at a flea market a month
?ago.

Stolen?


Pulled from service & replaced with CCD cameras. It was cheaper,
when you guarantee a low downtime. No one would bother to steal old
Vidicon cameras, these days. Most that I've picked up used had bad
electrolytics in the power supply. A $2 to $5 repair.


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