Today I Received...
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Today I received a nice little soldering station. Looks well made, seems to work fine (at least for my needs) and, finally, I have soft cables! My Antex iron has a really hard PVC cable which makes it impossible to manipulate as it fights me all the time. This one doesn't. (Image stolen from amazon!)
The little tin on the top is full of brass shavings to clean your tip. It's a lot deeper than it looks as it's recessed into the body of the station.
The Amazon UK link is https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07X3CZ3FJ? ... asin_image if anyone in interested. Not too shabby for £44 which was a "bargain" as I saved a whole £1.00!
Cheers,
Norm.
The little tin on the top is full of brass shavings to clean your tip. It's a lot deeper than it looks as it's recessed into the body of the station.
The Amazon UK link is https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07X3CZ3FJ? ... asin_image if anyone in interested. Not too shabby for £44 which was a "bargain" as I saved a whole £1.00!
Cheers,
Norm.
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Author of Arduino Interrupts
No longer on Twitter, find me on https://mastodon.scot/@NormanDunbar.
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What a week this is turning out to be, today I received in the post, this:
I'm impressed by the quality of the paper and the printing.
If anyone wants or needs a printed copy, Tinyfgpa is the man to see, this link has details viewtopic.php?f=9&t=3294&start=40#p35207.
Thanks Tinyfgpa.
Cheers,
Norm.
I'm impressed by the quality of the paper and the printing.
If anyone wants or needs a printed copy, Tinyfgpa is the man to see, this link has details viewtopic.php?f=9&t=3294&start=40#p35207.
Thanks Tinyfgpa.
Cheers,
Norm.
Why do they put lightning conductors on churches?
Author of Arduino Software Internals
Author of Arduino Interrupts
No longer on Twitter, find me on https://mastodon.scot/@NormanDunbar.
Author of Arduino Software Internals
Author of Arduino Interrupts
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Re: Today I Received...
I received my Q68 today!! Just waiting for a suitable power supply now.. anyone have preferences?
Thanks Derek!!
Peter
Thanks Derek!!
Peter
Re: Today I Received...
Well - not yet received - but ordered and on it's way:
https://ebay.us/MIw7P4
I always fancied building one of these but balked at the price of the whole kit - so a project for over the winter months I feel I have a good few of the IC's and connectors already - so the build cost should be fairly low.
Sadly one of the engineers involved in it's design passed away this year RIP
https://ebay.us/MIw7P4
I always fancied building one of these but balked at the price of the whole kit - so a project for over the winter months I feel I have a good few of the IC's and connectors already - so the build cost should be fairly low.
Sadly one of the engineers involved in it's design passed away this year RIP
- vanpeebles
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Re: Today I Received...
Does it control rows of flashing lights and big spinning tapes?Pr0f wrote:Well - not yet received - but ordered and on it's way:
https://ebay.us/MIw7P4
I always fancied building one of these but balked at the price of the whole kit - so a project for over the winter months I feel I have a good few of the IC's and connectors already - so the build cost should be fairly low.
Sadly one of the engineers involved in it's design passed away this year RIP
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Re: Today I Received...
Hi,
The Gigaton, was always something I meant have go at building.
Sad news about the designer.
The web site is:
https://gigatron.io/
The Gigaton, was always something I meant have go at building.
Sad news about the designer.
The web site is:
https://gigatron.io/
Regards,
Derek
Derek
Re: Today I Received...
first mainframe I worked on was a bit like that - back in the day when 4MB would run the entire company, supporting teleprocessing systems, batch processes and several hundred pages of reports a day...vanpeebles wrote:Does it control rows of flashing lights and big spinning tapes?Pr0f wrote:Well - not yet received - but ordered and on it's way:
https://ebay.us/MIw7P4
I always fancied building one of these but balked at the price of the whole kit - so a project for over the winter months I feel I have a good few of the IC's and connectors already - so the build cost should be fairly low.
Sadly one of the engineers involved in it's design passed away this year RIP
- vanpeebles
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Re: Today I Received...
Bonus points if you had to climb insidePr0f wrote:first mainframe I worked on was a bit like that - back in the day when 4MB would run the entire company, supporting teleprocessing systems, batch processes and several hundred pages of reports a day...vanpeebles wrote:Does it control rows of flashing lights and big spinning tapes?Pr0f wrote:Well - not yet received - but ordered and on it's way:
https://ebay.us/MIw7P4
I always fancied building one of these but balked at the price of the whole kit - so a project for over the winter months I feel I have a good few of the IC's and connectors already - so the build cost should be fairly low.
Sadly one of the engineers involved in it's design passed away this year RIP
Re: Today I Received...
No - but I did repair the 8" floppy drive used to load the microcode when you pressed the IML button - with one of the posties larger rubber bands
- vanpeebles
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Haha, that's great When I did my school work experience in the early mid 90s, Durham County still had places using 8" drives!Pr0f wrote:No - but I did repair the 8" floppy drive used to load the microcode when you pressed the IML button - with one of the posties larger rubber bands