cctech Digest, Vol 38, Issue 44

On 29 Oct, 2006, at 09:07, cctech-request at classiccmp.org wrote: I wish I'd seen your e-mail yesterday, you would have been very welcome to come. Sorry. I'm about eight miles from M20 junction 9 (Ashford West). If you come my way again, or anyone else on the list is in my neck of the woods and would like a look, could you e-mail me directly to save the delay of getting the digest, and try to give me a little advanced warning. I do not power Flossie up when the temperature is below about 13 degrees C as Germanium transistors are only rated down to 10 C and they are all now very old. Getting new GET872 transistors is almost impossible and even OA5 diodes are getting rare, the last I saw in the RadioSpares catalogue were a pound ($1.60 approx) each, and the machine has them by the thousand. Every word in the core store has two, so thats 4000 in each machine even before even thinking about the logic. If it wasn't for the price dropping when the supply rises I could be close to being a millionaire on the value of components alone! By the way, the above URL does have pictures of Flossie but it is very difficult to get a good picture at the moment - just not enough room around the machine. To access some parts is a major problem moving things around to make space so you can open the covers and get a scope and your body close to the machine. By the way, the storage scope probably has more processing power than the computer!