Maryland (was Re: My Collection)

I'm in Delaware, so the neighborhood's not that much bigger! -- Tony At 11:07 PM 4/13/2001 -0400, you wrote: >Hey Dave, > >Jeff Hellige, you and I are neighbors! Heck, Jeff was over a couple of >weeks ago >and I gave him the grand tour. I really enjoyed it. Four hours went by and it >seemed like we had barely started. We all ought to plan to get together for >trades, show-and-tell, etc. > >Computer people are a dime-a-dozen these days. Vintage computer people are >a rare >breed indeed, but I am glad I found this place. Thanks, Jeff! > >Eric > >Dave McGuire wrote: > > > U of M as in Maryland? I'm in Laurel. :-) > > > > So far I've found endless fascination in chips and power transistors. > > But, the most unbelievably fascinating thing that I've seen in that > > scope was something I thought would be boring...a blown tungsten lamp > > filament! I just did some quick scans of some of the > > electromicrographs I've done lately. They can be seen at > > http://www.neurotica.com/sem/images if you're interested. The blown > > tungsten lamp filament pics are filament-1.jpg and filament-2.jpg. > > > > -Dave McGuire > > > > On April 13, Jason McBrien wrote: > > > That's SUPER Impressive. What do you take pictures of? I'm always > hoping to > > > find one of those at U of M property depot, but the closest I've seen > is a > > > fetal ultrasound machine :) > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Dave McGuire" <mcguire(a)neurotica.com> > > > To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org> > > > Sent: Friday, April 13, 2001 2:39 PM > > > Subject: Re: My Collection > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I got motivated and took a few pics of it just a few minutes ago. > > > > They can be seen at http://www.neurotica.com/sem if you're interested. > > > > SEMs are some of the coolest devices ever put together, in my opinion. > > > > > > > > -Dave McGuire > > > > > > > > On April 13, Tony Eros wrote: > > > > > You've got an electron microscope? Cool! How small do those things > > > get? > > > > > > > > > > -- Tony > > > > > > > > > > At 11:51 AM 4/13/2001 -0400, you wrote: > > > > > >On April 13, Jerome Fine wrote: > > > > > > > Does anyone on the list run RT-11 still other than Megan Gentry? > > > > > > > Do you tinker with the operating system code at all? Does anyone > > > > > > > care about the RT-11 Operating System? > > > > > > > > > > > > I care about it; I like it quite a bit. I have a Micro 11/73 > > > > > >running v5.4, and a Kevex X-ray analyzer (an accessory to the > electron > > > > > >microscope) that has a pdp11/73 in it that runs RT-11. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -Dave McGuire > > > >