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Re:Steve Wozniak has a little bit of fun at Gray Powell’s ex... by jacquesm on Saturday April 24, 2010 @04:36PM (#1291513)
Soviet Era? Nixies were produced all over, it's just that the Soviet Union continued to produce them longer than the rest.
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Re:Steve Wozniak has a little bit of fun at Gray Powell’s ex... by sp332 on Saturday April 24, 2010 @05:49PM (#1291620)
In this context, "Soviet-era excess" is a jab at the culture of the USA around the time of the cold war. Some of the time periods in US history are named for the war we were fighting around that time. Revolution era, Civil War era, WWI and WWII era, cold-war/Soviet era, Vietnam era.
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