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   "Doug Freyburger"  wrote in message   
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   > gregz wrote:   
   >>   
   >> I see 4 manufacturing companies making audio type tubes but there are   
   >> others making everything from magnetrons to photo multipliers and   
   >> broadcast   
   >> tubes, including military.   
   >   
   > The point to me was semiconductors were the number one export but they   
   > got erroneously flagged as vacuum tubes because of an obsolete   
   > definition or export form.   
   >   
   >> And, semiconductors might be the missing   
   >> component, but you expect most to be made overseas, but sold in America?   
   >   
   > We could import several times as many chips as we export and chips could   
   > still be high on the list.   
   >   
   > For many years the largest exporting company in the US was Boeing   
   > exporting aircraft.  For many years the number two was Sun Microsystems   
   > exporting servers.  Those are from maybe a decade ago but at a glance it   
   > still made sense to me.   
      
   Yes but now microsystems inporting stuf from china and under environmental   
   stress testing has been pure garbage!!!   
      
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