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TerraHertz:

--- Quote from: jord4231 on April 19, 2020, 08:20:26 pm ---the guy I brought it off said his son was really in to electronics and one day brought out an old electronics store.

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This sounds like an interesting bit of hidden history. WHICH old electronics store I wonder? There never were that many in Australia, and stores like Dick Smith, Tandy etc tended not to have such a variety of stock.
What city was this in?


--- Quote from: sleemanj on April 19, 2020, 10:22:37 pm ---Reality is that the ics are a waste of space,  at best unless you want to still be there with most of them in 20 years,...

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/Typical "throw out everything old" advice. Blindness to the value of historical preservation for its own sake. Someone who can't conceive that maybe it would be a good thing to be 'still there with them' not just in 20 years, but 200 years. Bequeath them to descendants. (Probably not the electrolytic caps though.)
NivagSwerdna:

--- Quote from: jord4231 on April 19, 2020, 05:51:07 am ---...and a big old eeprom machine too...

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EPROM Programmer porn....  :)  I have a mild addiction to buying old programmers.... looks like that is quite niche.... don't turn it on... take it apart!

PS
The 74 series hoard is very useful to arcade game collectors to keep their dodgy boards going... e.g. 74161s are always failing....
jord4231:

--- Quote from: TerraHertz on April 23, 2020, 02:29:43 pm ---
--- Quote from: jord4231 on April 19, 2020, 08:20:26 pm ---the guy I brought it off said his son was really in to electronics and one day brought out an old electronics store.

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This sounds like an interesting bit of hidden history. WHICH old electronics store I wonder? There never were that many in Australia, and stores like Dick Smith, Tandy etc tended not to have such a variety of stock.
What city was this in?


--- Quote from: sleemanj on April 19, 2020, 10:22:37 pm ---Reality is that the ics are a waste of space,  at best unless you want to still be there with most of them in 20 years,...

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/Typical "throw out everything old" advice. Blindness to the value of historical preservation for its own sake. Someone who can't conceive that maybe it would be a good thing to be 'still there with them' not just in 20 years, but 200 years. Bequeath them to descendants. (Probably not the electrolytic caps though.)

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I Purchased this all in Geelong Victoria, Apparently the closing down store was in Melbourne. I was hoping some one saw the labels on the big fluro boxes and it triggered a memory :)
Interestingly there are a few odd things here and there like strain gauges that have RS packaging all over them
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