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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I got one point - no boombox.
Had and used -
Computer that you loaded with front panel switches - Altair 8800
8”floppies, hard and soft sectored.
Watchman TV - pocket-sized tv made by Sony, have a few, rigged a transmitter for them. all transistor except for the picture tube.
open reel tape recorders.
bit-slice computer. AMD2901 processors.
teletypes, including a few that ran at 75 baud. Impressive to watch those things fly.
50-baud data links, audio and hard-wired.
tube televisions and radios - All-American Five anybody?
Party-line phone.


157 posted on 12/09/2025 11:44:31 AM PST by dagunk
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To: dagunk

50L6, 12SQ7, 12SK7, 12SA7, 35Z5.


163 posted on 12/09/2025 11:54:44 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Charlie Kirk: "If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine")
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To: dagunk

“open reel tape recorders.”

Yep. Bought a Sony TC-640 (”Tape Corder”) reel-to-reel around 1970 with my summer earnings in college. I made party mix tapes that were a huge hit at our fraternity parties. It was tedious work making those tapes, but they were great. I put it on my car trunk about 1980 and it fell off and hit the curb! I was sick to my stomach. The beautiful wood case cracked in one corner, but it kept on ticking like nothing had happened! Sold it around 1982 or so and I think I got almost what I’d paid for it 12 years earlier. It was built like a tank.


210 posted on 12/09/2025 2:01:42 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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