OT: Archiving data/video/movies/photos/oral history

From: William Donzelli <aw288_at_osfn.org>
Date: Tue Jun 6 10:48:26 2000

> Dunno the #, but I think I paid about $2-$3 to Fair Radio for the knob, in
> the early 80s, they had plenty of command set accessories. I wonder what
> they have left, they're certainly still in business, although their prices
> have gone up bigtime.

Fair still has lots of things.Basically, 99 percent of what they have is
not in the catalog, simply because of the small quantities - either
because they never had many of part X to begin with, or they have reduced
the inventory so much that it is not worth putting in the catalog. I
frequent Fair (back in a few weeks!), and I am always finding weird
individual things, and boxes of stuff that were mainstays of catalogs past.

They do get computer stuff from tim to time, but it gets scrapped out
fast, I think. Last time I was there, they had quite a few plotters (IBM
and HP) and some HP 1000 (or 2000) minicomputers with odd labels, as they
were part of some sort of HP oddball gizmo tester. Fair also has quite a
few boards full of old transistors, for those of us that have minis from
the 1960s. Now that I have a list of part numbers needed for the RCS/RI
Packard Bell, I look for spares.
 
> Are those the nasty latches that hold the top on? Because ...

Yes. Nasty they are.
 
> Then I guess I'm going to hell!

No, just a nighttime visit from Vito and Tony.

> On the plus side, I have a BC-223-AX transmitter which my grandfather
> supposedly schlepped back from somewhere

Probably Buffalo Radio Supply...

> Don't know anything about it though, BC means signal corps right?

Yes ("Basic Component").

BC-223-AX was part os SCR-245. A big 10 Watts of AM. It is a ground radio
set, not aircraft. If you ever want to get rid of it, contact me.

William Donzelli
aw288_at_osfn.org
Received on Tue Jun 06 2000 - 10:48:26 BST