OT: Not a Nixie but a very nice and rare tube, a Selectron memory tube!

[Dekatron42]

Just fund this on eBay: https://www.ebay.com/itm/174977901251 a Selectron memory tube, perhaps someone here has the money to buy it and add it to their collection?

/Martin

[Nicholas Stock]

I want what that seller is smoking..... ~$10K? 

On Thu, Dec 30, 2021 at 12:39 PM Dekatron42 <martin....@gmail.com> wrote:

Just fund this on eBay: https://www.ebay.com/itm/174977901251 a Selectron memory tube, perhaps someone here has the money to buy it and add it to their collection?

/Martin

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[Toby Thain]

On 2021-12-30 3:46 p.m., Nicholas Stock wrote:
> I want what that seller is smoking..... ~$10K?
>

How much did the last one you saw sell for

[gregebert]

Hmmm, if I needed to replace the DRAMs in my Linux server (relax...it's only 4GBytes...) I would need just over 134 million of these. At the amazing price of 9500USD, all I would need is wee bit more than a trillion dollars.

No wonder Intel saw a market for the 1101, it's first static memory, which is also 256 bits.

[Bartek Ogryz]

Very nice tube!

@gregebert

The tube is 250mm high by 76mm diameter. Your 4GB memory would need min. 0,77km2 of PCB :D

The production cost was 500USD in 1946 (equivalent of 5378USD in 2020).

Bartek.

[Ian]

That is one fantastic tube

On 30 Dec 2021, at 20:39, Dekatron42 <martin....@gmail.com> wrote:



Just fund this on eBay: https://www.ebay.com/itm/174977901251 a Selectron memory tube, perhaps someone here has the money to buy it and add it to their collection?

/Martin

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