15 Jun
2015
15 Jun
'15
2:44 p.m.
On Jun 15, 2015, at 2:19 PM, Noel Chiappa <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
Having said that, _I_ don't have 2N3904s nor
NE555s around either! I do have
a modest number of parts (e.g. 4164's, 40-ping Berg shells, .250 tab
hardware, etc, etc) - a large enough collection that I just had to
re-organize and add more parts holders (although that was mostly because I
went berserk at the local Radio Shack in the 80% off sale). But it takes a
long time to build up a really comprehensive collection of parts.
I got into the arcade & pinball hobby over a decade ago, would travel to people home?s
and fix their machines, and really got into the retro computing thing about 3 years ago. I
don?t have a huge collection of parts either, just what I bought to fix something or make
something. One nice thing is there is a lot of crossover of technology with both hobbies,
so I?m often surprised to find I happen to already have something on hand.
What sucks is ordering things that I actually *did* have because I didn?t know. I?ve
slowly started to be a little more organized but things are still scattered all over in
different boxes. I decided to standardize on those 24 compartment and 18 compartment
storage containers from Harbor Freight since they fit quite well in the wooden crates I?ve
been making.
http://imgur.com/a/UsFn3
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