27 May
2008
27 May
'08
8:37 p.m.
On Tuesday 27 May 2008 18:19, bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca wrote:
Tony Duell wrote:
Yes indeed. Ever since I got a whole lot of those manuals I've been lusting
after some of that GenRad stuff, even though there's no way in hell I can
possibly justify the purchase of any test equipment...
--
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"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin
[3] It was given to my school (the worst thing to
do to any piece of
historic equipment IMHO). It didn't work, the teachers couldn't see the
point of it, and alas before I got to hear of it, some idiot had started
raiding it for the precision resistors. I realised what it was before too
much damage had been done, and managed ot get them to give it to me. But
it's going to be a lot of work to get going again.
I suspect the resistors will not be hard to replace, as resistor quality
has gone up over the years. What is sad is the loss of well designed
equipment since the puter era.