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Lauren Weinstein

@tubetime So many years ago, when all I had in my bedroom at home with my parents was a little black and white TV, a friend offered me a little portable color TV that had been sitting outside under a covered porch with lots of other equipment for years. So it looked reasonable and I took it home. Inside seemed OK on cursory inspection.

I turned it on. It worked. For some definition of worked. It also had a terrible burning odor, and a black widow spider crawled out.

I didn't use the set for long.

@tubetime So many years ago, when all I had in my bedroom at home with my parents was a little black and white TV, a friend offered me a little portable color TV that had been sitting outside under a covered porch with lots of other equipment for years. So it looked reasonable and I took it home. Inside seemed OK on cursory inspection.

Tube❄️Time

kind of a chaotic energy going on here

Tube❄️Time

neat gauges that you might expect to find in a power plant

Tube❄️Time replied to Tube❄️Time

a Heathkit calculator with a Panaplex display

in_sympathy replied to Tube❄️Time

@tubetime had to read it three times because I really got stuck at thinking like what the hell is a “heaLthkit” calculator 😆

Tube❄️Time replied to Tube❄️Time

this card comes apart in two halves. very odd

Ozzelot :anarchy: :linux: replied to Tube❄️Time

@tubetime I heard you like cards, so I put a card on your card so you can card while you card

Tube❄️Time replied to Tube❄️Time

wonder what these boards were from

Tube❄️Time replied to Tube❄️Time

some sort of early Apple chip kit.

Tube❄️Time replied to Tube❄️Time

this toaster gets along with bread like a house on fire

Tube❄️Time replied to Tube❄️Time

caution: radiation from polonium is dangerous if the said material is ingested or inhaled. do not

Tube❄️Time replied to Tube❄️Time

the existence of this gauge makes me uneasy

Stefan Reinauer replied to Tube❄️Time

@tubetime Might come in handy in the next decades! Just keep it generally below 2.

Tube❄️Time replied to Tube❄️Time

extra long life battery. put in service before Feb 1943. think it's still good?

SmittyHalibut replied to Tube❄️Time

@tubetime oh, DANG! A logarithmic current meter?! That’s amazing! I mean, 10k mA is … carry the two… 10A, so not too scary. But the log scale is AMAZING.

Ben A L Jemmett replied to Tube❄️Time

@tubetime "Well, either the battery's good or we've got a problem, it's too soon to tell..."

Jean-Baptiste "JBQ" Quéru replied to Tube❄️Time

@tubetime My wife and I were discussing the other day that VLB is what truly killed 16-bit computers.

Take It EV Podcast 🎙️ replied to Tube❄️Time

@tubetime envious, that’s like a 3 episodes of YouTube videos hour long each !
How much did you pay for it ?

Probertd8 replied to Tube❄️Time

@tubetime *sniff* Where they'll finally find the actual number for Pi and the square root of -1.

poleguy replied to Tube❄️Time

@tubetime I think that says "solid material" not "said material". Although I wonder what distinction the word might be trying to make. Is it safe to inhale and eat the dust? Or should we vaporize it first? :-) Yikes.

𝙹𝚘𝚃𝙾𝚔𝚕𝚊 replied to Tube❄️Time

@tubetime
ooh... we've been using an old flopper for ages. IMO it makes the best toast!

cos replied to Tube❄️Time

@tubetime I also have bunch of such gauges.

Not sure what to do with them, but maybe hook them up to Home Assistant to display some important data.

Lord Prof. Thomas Klopf of CZ

@tubetime I wonder if there is some award if you can use all those plugs at once

In Re: the 🏳️‍⚧️✨ of Rylie

@tubetime that's an interesting time point. It both has inputs for multiple VCRs, and optical digital audio.

dasparadoxon

@tubetime perfection. I wish you could 3D scan these things. :)

Stu

@tubetime Oh cool, does this share a dialup connection with the network?

Jack Coates 🐀

@tubetime why have a floppy to store configuration for restoring connection after power outages when you can have a post it taped to the case instead

gelatinous cube (rat)

@tubetime
Is there any type of electronic equipment that they *didn't* shove a floppy drive into at some point?

Gorgeous na Shock!

@tubetime After seeing this, I hopped on ebay and found one... it just arrived with its boot #floppy, so I dumped it, since I couldn't find any others online: archive.org/details/netblazer-

Seems to be a standard FAT-formatted floppy, at least! Hopefully any credentials still on it are long expired in the past 30 years... the URLs aren't any good (and they seem to predate the Wayback Machine!)

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