[Milsurplus] FR-114 Digital Frequency Counter

[Hubert Miller]

I was working in an actual surplus store in Seattle around 1976-1979 when we received something like ten of these, apparently unused, in transit cases. I thought they
were wonderful looking, impressive quality, but for me, they were crippled by the 1 MHz limit and of scant usefulness. Howard Lembke, the bossman, used his personal
"intuition calculator" to set the  price at  $75 each, which struck me as too high, but they all sold, and pretty quickly too. Being in Seattle, the store's clientele was not
just bottom-feeding surplus scroungers,  but probably as many or more so, engineers and technicians from Boeing and other local industry, and also people from the
U. of W.   One could learn a whole lot from just listening to the conversations of the regular Saturday morning crowd.
-Hue

http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-Military-Sentinel-FR-114A-U-Digital-Nixie-Tube-Frequency-Meter-TESTED-/122368130037?hash=item1c7db57bf5:g:Xc8AAOSw2gxYrgPT

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