Category Archives: Miscellany

All sorts of stuff, ranging from my insane rants on the proper indenting of stuff to

Gullibility Begone Ring

Posted on 2013/03/31 by daqq

Have you ever fallen for some spam scam. Sent all your personal info to Mbhukake - the newly appointed nigerian minister of finance to transfer a million USD through your account? Bought Viagra from GenericViagraNoSpam.com? Bought pseudoscientific or magical healing/improvement … Continue reading →

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IBM 7864

Posted on 2013/03/31 by daqq

The IBM 7864: A data collection terminal. While looking for something else I came upon these buggers. They've all got a 8088 processor, a barcode scanner and fail to boot up. Only 1 of 3 was functional, the rest had broken … Continue reading →

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Old storage media

Posted on 2013/03/31 by daqq

I've collected some interesting storage devices over the years. Behold 🙂

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Tektronix 455

Posted on 2013/03/31 by daqq

My second scope was the wonderful Tektronix 455 - a great analog scope with lots of great features - about 100 times better than my first Soviet C112 scope. Reasons: I had to sell it to buy my current digital … Continue reading →

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Soviet C-112 scope

Posted on 2013/03/31 by daqq

The C1-112 oscilloscope: A simple soviet scope. AFAIK it is a copy of a french scope. I have the manual. The schematics part is available for download. It is very large, namely 10MB. So be careful when you decide to … Continue reading →

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Czechoslovakian mystery keyboard

Posted on 2013/03/31 by daqq

I got this device from my school, from a friend. It looked interesting and I needed (OK, maybe not needed, but was very interested) to know what it actually was. So, here's the thing: write into the guestbook what you … Continue reading →

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Soviet missile punch tape interface

Posted on 2013/03/31 by daqq

I like cool stuff. I can't resist exotic electronic vintage parts, and what's more exotic than a programmer for a military rocket? On my frequent visits to a local electronics fleemarket, a guy who sells radioamatuer stuff offered me this … Continue reading →

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Vintage calculators

Posted on 2013/03/31 by daqq

Yes, I am a collector wannabe. Here's my prized colection of vintage calculators. They are mostly from Texas Instruments, but there are some from other companies. The Commodore SR4190R The Texas Instruments SR-40 The Texas Instruments SR-50 The Texas Instruments TI-45 … Continue reading →

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