On Sun, 12 May 2019 17:02:11 +0100, Mike Coon wrote:

The computer museum at Bletchley Park has (or had) a valve re-cycling
exchange. I bequeathed (or dumped) my father's collection of valves and
his (Taylor?) big wooden-cased valve tester to them and they made
appropriate gratitude noises...

Oh, I save the tubes alright; I'm not that much of a philistine.
That valve tester of yours was probably an AVO. I've got a couple of
those in my collection.





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