At 04:33 26-04-98 +0000, lwalker_at_interlog.com (Larry) wrote:
>
>On 25 Apr 98 at 21:45, William Donzelli wrote:
>
>> > Ok, since I intend to use this thing to work on computer related gear
older
>> > than 10 years old (my 083 card sorter for example), I'm proclaiming this
>> > inquiry off-limits for random flamage! B^}
-- snip --
> I have a model 625 I use for old audio equipment. If it's anything like my
>m.625 they're a neat little machine. They do the job. I don't know if the
>settings are the same for the 635. Ask on rec.audio.tubes and/or rec.audio
and
>someone should know. If so I'll see if I can get a scan of my sheets and send
>them on to you.
>
>> What tubes do you need to test? I could post the numbers to the
>> Boatanchors list, and someone will probably have the settings on hand.
>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Bill I'm shocked. Hope that list name was chosen in derision of the
throw-away
>generation. : ^ ))
>
>> William Donzelli
>> william_at_ans.net
>>
>ciao larry
>lwalker_at_interlog.com
>
No, a 'Boatanchor' is an affectionate reference to (primarily) older,
vacuum tube (valve) operated radio receivers and transmitters.
Tube operated test equipment and other 'tubed' items such as the mid-50's
IBM 704-series computers that many of us have laying around [ ;-) ] are
also usually referred to as boatanchors. The 704 I lusted after at the
Deutsches Museum in Munich a couple of years ago could certainly anchor a
boat not to mention sink it ;) It sat not too far from a Cray-1, IBM 360
console, a Boroughs of some sort (IIRC) plus other big iron and examples
of Konrad Zuse's Z-series from the mid-to-late 40's. Travelers/ Europeans:
you gotta see this if you possibly can!
William: sounds like you have eclectic collecting interests like myself and
maybe a couple of others in ClassicComp as I've seen evidence of you in the
antique automobile and antique radio-type newsgroups. Got any room left in
your house???? ;)
By the way, the TV-7*/U is a military nomenclature referencing a military
surplus tube tester. This type is generaly revered to be the optimum tube
tester that one should have in his/her shop for most accurately testing
tubes. Anybody got one available? I'm actually looking for a good unit
(needed to test the tubes in my own 704 --NOT!.)
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Received on Mon Apr 27 1998 - 09:24:39 BST