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If one of the tubes burnt out we had to run down to the drugstore and use the test machine to find the bad tube and hope they had the replacement in stock.



In high school (late 80's) I worked for a pharmacy that still had one of these machines. Nobody ever used it.

Here's what the typewriter I used for my H.S. papers looked like. I had to borrow it from the 80+ y/o neighbor accross the street. Folks couldn't buy us one.

Stewart ....... "It's outside your field of expertise." "Poppycock normally is."