12 Mar
2007
12 Mar
'07
10:31 p.m.
On Mon, 12 Mar 2007, Adrian Graham wrote:
I liked the 860, even coming from a modern
perspective. Most importantly for
an older machine, it smelt *nice* when it was hot. Maybe I'm weird, but
there's a smell associated with old hardware that's just....nice.
Gently heated dust of ages... :o) It can be a most beautiful scent and
note how there are subtle variations say between something filled with TTL
and older say radio equipment with valves (in particular transmitters -
more heat?). There was a shop back home in Yorkshire with an amazing
electronics smell due to all the mil surplus scopes and spectrum analysers
etc that would be powered up. Mmmmm.
Andrew