Notices by Tube❄️Time (tubetime@mastodon.social)

the battery is very nasty indeed. it needs to come out and i need to remove the corrosion on the holder.

latest pickup: a very obscure Microsoft product -- the PCjr BOOSTER!

you can see the leaked alkaline chemical react with the vinegar here.

green fuzz!

it's a NEDA 1306A cell! 4.5V.

It’s the 40th birthday of the first computer I remember using. The Amiga 1000 was released this day in 1985!

so um I've owned this Hakko FR-301 desoldering gun for years now and I just discovered that the blue handled "screwdriver" is actually meant to clean out the heater. 😳

come see me at Open Sauce this weekend in San Mateo! i will have the MOnSter 6502 on display! this is the world's largest 6502 microprocessor, built out of discrete transistors.

it will be set up at CuriousMarc's booth.

these cameras double as accordions

that's right, it's another early morning Electronics Flea Market here in silicon valley.

giant bandpass filter

Sony electronic book. IIRC the cartridge contains a regular CD-ROM that's just slightly smaller in diameter

back of a Radius monitor. you can change it from landscape to portrait, thus the track on the back

Tek 549 storage oscilloscope. must be a pretty early type of storage scope

some sort of RF amplifier. looks homemade

gross

a NeXT laser printer! sadly the paper cartridge is missing

an entire pallet of old computers

HP 9836 computer

aircraft instruments!