[Arny Krueger]

"Eeyore"
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Sander deWaal wrote:

"Arny Krueger" said:

Tube wear is usually grossly overstated; when on for
24/7, a good NOS tube can keep its parameters
reasonably constant for about 10.000 hrs.

Hmm, true confessions? 10 hour tube life?

A real engineer would have known that here in Europe,
the use of commas and periods in numbers are reversed.

Note gratuitous wad of snot from Sander.

But not in the UK of course, so I guess that should be
'mainland Europe'.

At any rate, Usenet is a US creation (Bell Labs) and traditionally uses US
standards. Not that I'm defending our system of weights and measures or date
formatting.