Welcome, Sapper. If you spend too much time here, it's a collection that's bound to grow.
I don't think that will be a problem to zapper, he is already fixing his crosshairs on another scope without our assistance. I think he is just for a new circle of friends who won't question his addiction, zapper we warmly welcome you to the group, you fit the mould perfectly..
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Precisely! He fits right in here with all of us mouldy oldies who love collecting and tinkering with mouldy oldies...
Welcome to our rabbit hole, Sapper; the perpetually-falling taco truck is over there, a little due South...
My local Amateur radio club has had an interesting 24 hrs,
Last night we got a presentation from a local Ham, Steve VK5SFA (who also happens to be a braodcast engineer ) who won the 2019 ARRL Antenna design of the year with his double magnetic loop antenna for 1.8MHz - the design and construction is on his website
http://members.iinet.net.au/~sadler@netspace.net.au/tmla.html
At midday we had our Buy and Sell - not a great lot of sellers this year - but I was not unhappy with my purchase from a fellow Club member of some real and working "HP iron" - the past owner is very careful fellow so you know it has been well looked after. Great price AUD$50
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You know it's good old iron when it's labeled in Megacycles!
No it disappears when gnif cocks up instead
Everything is ephemeral. Enjoy the moment. Just try not to do it on Facebook as it’s a sack of shit.
Back in 1986, in the middle of the home computer boom, the BBC (I think it was) decided to celebrate the 900th anniversary of Doomesday Book by creating a digital record of everyday life. The main difference is that you can still read Doomesday Book - as I did when it was on show at the British Library Anglo-Saxons exhibition a while back.
Yeah as the only geek in the school at the time I actually worked on that back in the day. We had to submit articles using viewdata! I did something to do with coastal geography. Booooring lol
I knew someone who had a working laserdisc, master and full set of discs back in the late 1990s that were just tossed in a skip. He sold them for a stack of cash and used it to put a down payment on a lotus Elise he was too fat to get into which we found terribly hilarious. I couldn’t get in it either at the time either so I shouldn’t laugh
Edit: lots of schools were issued with Domesday players but during the IT exodus away from Acorn in the 90s they had no idea of the value and they were just tossing in skips. Teachers were totally dumb in this respect. Now there aren’t many working laserdisc players out there. I made a small fortune out of this as well skip diving Acorn kit post disposal and selling on yahoo auctions 1999-2001. No Domesday for me though
I actually let go of my V5000 in our last move... I hadn't actually even turned it on in 3 years even though it was set up right in the LR and my collection of LDs in a milk crate right next to it. My CDs were all in cartridges, so just a PITA. Put them all up on fleaBay; got ridiculous money for them. Funny the conversation should move this direction; look what I just unearthed yesterday...
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*home alone widda kiddles*