Weekend Scavenging

From: Kevan Heydon <kevan_at_motiv.co.uk>
Date: Wed Apr 2 03:14:25 1997

Bill Wrote:
>
> It was a good weekend ;)
>

I will have to agree with you here. I find the spring car boot sales
here in the UK tend to be very good, and the ones over this holiday
weekend to be especially good. My find of the weekend was another Anita
calculator that has a nixie tube display. (My dad is getting very good
at spotting calculators at the bottom of a box.) It does have a few
problems but more on this later. The Anita was among the dozen
calculators, two Intellivisions (both with speech modules), various
Atari XE & 2600 cartridges, a G7000 + a dozen carts and the first
reasonably priced (3 pounds) Spectrum +2. I also picked up a couple of
old Speak & Spell and a couple of Little Professors (one LCD & one LED)
These last ones are educational things for my new daughter, well that's
my excuse anyway.

The Anita mostly works. The tubes all work, it is just the number keys
produce the wrong numbers. One of the circuit boards looks like it has
some water damage, and maybe some rust under the whiteish residue. What
is the best way of cleaning this?

-- 
Kevan
Old Computer Collector: <URL:http://staff.motiv.co.uk/~kevan/>
Received on Wed Apr 02 1997 - 03:14:25 BST

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