I remember going into Safeway when I was a kid.  I wondered what the machine
was with all the circles on it.  It was next to the front door.  I found out
later it was a tube tester.  All the TV and Radio tubereplacements were down
below.  Now it's gone and the Safeway store with it.

Guy Avenell
www.hptraderonline.com


----- Original Message -----
From: "Art Bahrs" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 8:22 AM
Subject: [HP3000-L] OT: Question and Memories relating to: Monday humor
(feeling old)


> Ok All :)
>     I am just a young Pup!  and I remember the old 'Edison' records (as my
> Dad called 'em) they were a quarter inch thick!
>
>     I think the trick here is how much old stuff was in our house.... I
mean
> with parents born in the early 20's we had lots of stuff :)
>
>    One thing that I loved was the old radio that my Grandfather had bought
> after coming to America between the wars... a floor standing model!  has
> every band on it... except FM... it hadn't been invented/discovered?
yet...
> I would love to find out how to get it working again... it worked when I
was
> a kid (last turned on in 1969 for the moon landing!)  Yes... this is the
> same radio that heard the famous Day of Infamy speech and Armstrong's
words
> from the moon!  Has a 'Cat Eye' for a tuning meter...
>
>    Anyone know of any good web sites for this type of radio?
>
>     And we won't even mention the Buck Roger's Disintegrator (Cap) Pistols
> that we used every 4th of July!  Still do actually!!
>
> Thanks,
> Art "love the older things in life :) " Bahrs
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ted Ashton" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 7:05 AM
> Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] OT: Monday humor (feeling old)
>
>
> > Thus it was written in the epistle of carol darnell,
> > > Older than OLDER THAN DIRT!!!  45 rpm records?  how about 78s!  I
think
> I
> > > still have some (original recordings of Rachmaninoff)... just no means
> of
> > > playing them any longer......
> >
> > Y'all must have some pretty young dirt around :-).  I remember 78s and
I'm
> 32.
> >
> > Ted
> > --
> > Ted Ashton ([log in to unmask]), Info Sys, Southern Adventist
University
> >           ==========================================================
> > I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our
> > geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human
> > intellect...geometry should be ranked, not with arithmetic, which is
> purely
> > aprioristic, but with mechanics.
> >                                            -- Gauss, Karl Friedrich
> (1777-1855)
> >           ==========================================================
> >          Deep thought to be found at http://www.southern.edu/~ashted
> >
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