Beehive terminals

On Sunday 01 January 2006 03:29 pm, Chuck Guzis wrote: I used to work on old radios for a guy, he'd re-do the cabinets and I'd re-do the innards. Only criterion he had for what he picked up was that the cabinet had to _not_ be made out of plastic. One in particular that I remember well was not only AM-FM, but had some shortwave bands as well. The stuff I picked up in the trailer I was living in at the time was pretty amazing, considering that I tested it inside the trailer and used some handy hunk of wire for an antenna... Notstalgia? Not really, I don't miss tube stuff, even though that's where things were when I started working with electronics. What I miss is quality, and the good sound that tube stuff had, you don't see it in later gear, not at all. Nor the quality, either. (Aside: I wonder why somebody hasn't come up with some kind of a filter to get that sound? They'd make a mint!) -- Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters" - Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James M Dakin