13 Jan
2011
13 Jan
'11
6:12 p.m.
On Thursday (01/13/2011 at 01:02PM -0600), John Foust wrote:
The ham radio people tend to look at the ASR-33 as a light-weight junk
teletype for amateurs. They generally tried to get rid of them, until
they figured out recently that they'll fetch crazy prices from
classic computer collectors, especially if they're maintained and working.
I'm really conflicted because I am one of _those_ ham radio people
and a classic computer collector and I've restored two ASR-33 in the
past year... so that they are tuned up and adjusted to factory specs...
internally as clean as new and run as smooth as can be-- and I am going
to keep them ;-)
Chris N0JCF
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Chris Elmquist