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This late forties to early fifties metal sign was most likely used outside a radio or TV repair shop that carried General Electric tubes and parts. Nothing more I can say.

This Philco tube price list is made out of painted sheet metal and the price list was made of paper and could be updated. The frame was probably from the mid thirties and the paper list is from the early forties because of the types of tubes shown on the list. The valuable and hard-to-find type 45 tubes only cost a mere 75-cents back then!

This is a 1970s PONG game console by Tandy (Radio Shack) that operates on GI's AY-3-8500-1 PONG chip. The PONG chip has four games, Practice (single player), Handball, Hockey, and the classic Tennis. Radio Shack sold many "TV Scoreboard" consoles in various styles over the years. In this particular console, the paddles can be detached.

The Texas Instruments TI-1025 is a basic calculator from 1979 with a greenish-blue VFD (vacuum fluorescent display) and runs on a 9-volt battery.

This 1977 Texas Instruments TI-59 calculator was one of the best programmable calculators available at the time. There is even an entire website dedicated to the TI-59 here: http://www.ti59.com.

This is an idea for those who have many worthless television tubes. Perhaps to add excitement: wire the filaments in series to light up those tubes.