[GreenKeys] Western Electric: still in business...

[Larry DeSoto]

A tribute to the federal government...when I went to work for Western 
Electric in 1970, there were about 225,000 people on roll.  There were still 
about 170,000 people on roll in the early 80's when the feds decided to 
destroy Bell.

Larry
WA5MLH




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don Robert House" <k9tty at dls.net>
To: "Craig Sawyers" <c.sawyers at tech-enterprise.com>
Cc: <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 8:41 PM
Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] Western Electric: still in business...


> Good Lord of Mercy.
>
> That is a lot of money for tubes!!
>
> Don
>
> On 3 Aug 2009, at 3:32 AM, Craig Sawyers wrote:
>
> Indeed they are, Don.
>
> They make their original tubes for high-end audio use - for instance a
> matched octet of 300B's is $3,600, and a matched pair of 308B's is
> $4,200.
> Ouch.
>
> Craig
>
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Don Robert House [mailto:packard42 at gmail.com]
>> Sent: 03 August 2009 02:46
>> Subject: Western Electric: still in business...
>>
>>
>> I did not know that Western Electric is still in business... as the
>> Western Electric Export Corporation.
>>
>> Here is a very interesting link:
>>
>> http://www.westernelectric.com/history.html
>>
>
>
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