On 29 Oct, 2006, at 09:07, cctech-request at
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Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 00:48:52 +0100 (BST)
From: "Witchy" <witchy at binarydinosaurs.co.uk>
Subject: Re: ict1301.co.uk
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On Sun, October 29, 2006 12:03 am, Al Kossow said:
http://ict1301.co.uk/13012006.htm
A bit more up to date than the previous url
Hm, I'm driving through Kent later on today, I wonder if I could
call in
and have a visit? :)
--
adrian/witchy
Binary Dinosaurs creator/curator
www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the UKs biggest home computer collection?
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!