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another day, another silicon valley electronics flea market!

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might be a better idea to sell these on the website that sells only fans.

Daniel O'Connor

@tubetime Any idea what the cut outs on the fans are? Apart from extra good at shredding fingers anyway

A close up of a computer fan with some pieces cut from the blades
Lalit Patnaik

@tubetime By greatly enhancing life of electronics, every cooling fan has an immense effect on reducing the world's carbon emissions!

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a neat old Motorola TV. notice it can receive fringe TV, presumably stuff like x files reruns

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want some plants? here's some plants

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test equipment and a fancy hpib floppy drive

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some sort of emulator but it is missing the pod

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haha someone just bought an IBM 5154 EGA monitor for $15

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oh wow a Cartrivision player! these are super rare

Bruno Philipe replied to Tube❄️Time

@tubetime man, I tried these in the past. I boiled them for 2 hours and they were still hard as rocks... not recommended

Plaid replied to Tube❄️Time

@tubetime how long does it take to boil to al dente?

Kenneth Freeman replied to Tube❄️Time

@tubetime Wow. Never heard of it. Was it featured in Playboy?

Charles J Gervasi ⚡🛡️🥥 replied to Tube❄️Time

@tubetime I saw one of those in use last week to display the output from a monitoring camera inside a test chamber.

🦊🍸Faux around & find out⚠️

@tubetime When the Rave DJ says “Time to kick this up a notch…”

ZpqrtBnk

@tubetime Methink there’s a market for purchasing these and shipping them to Europe. We don’t have such markets here and well… I know I’d end up spending some money.

[empty]

@tubetime I wish software testing had something like that

Scott Willsey

@tubetime 6” wafers, I haven’t seen those in probably 30 years! 😮

Eric Carroll

@tubetime What does one do with scrap wafers that makes them worth US$3.33 and not just landfill?

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@EricCarroll look at them under a microscope, sometimes you'll find interesting prerelease silicon. or neat silicon artwork. you can also examine the test structures, and with the right equipment, measure transistor characteristics.

Charles J Gervasi ⚡🛡️🥥

@tubetime I wonder how many people used the variable front-end gain features on old TVs and radios.

F4GRX Sébastien

@tubetime is that the tv visible in The Matrix when Neo and Morpheus are in the construct?

aaron

@tubetime That is clearly the iOS 2.0 YouTube app icon!

Screenshot of the iOS 2.0 home screen
Lothus Marque

@tubetime I think that's the most... basic one I've ever seen.

Dustin

@tubetime how do you find out about these markets? Is there a vintage computing website you use? I live in Colorado and there only seems to be one "organized" vintage computing market a year… 😭

Eric Brombaugh

@tubetime Who among us doesn't have a box full of unopened Radio Shack parts?

Stewart Russell

@tubetime it said butt connector uh huh huh

(And I guess the chances of finding an Archer-packed SP0256 that the legs haven't corroded off are slim to none)

Григорий Клюшников

Those individually packaged transistors and diodes sure look like the packaging should be more expensive than the component itself

ducksauz 🦆

@tubetime Damn, those are some vintage Trash Shack parts.

Christophe

@tubetime « Butt connector »? Can’t figure out how it works!

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