Soyuz Clock Livestream Summary Video
This is a summary video made from the Soyuz Clock Patreon Livestream. The majority of the foo...
2021-02-11 08:10:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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Soyuz Space Clock Livestream
We've got another Soyuz clock, this time from Steve Jurvetson’s collection. This one is older than my digital one which we already restored, and it’s entirely electro-mechanical. Jo...
2021-02-09 03:54:52 +0000 UTC View PostTest Livestream - Soyuz Clock Setup
Folks, the official Livestream with the clock will be tomorrow, but I am doing a test run rig...
2021-02-08 20:23:35 +0000 UTC View PostHeads up for Soyuz Clock Livestream
Dear Patrons,
We are going to try something new with our first Patreon Livestream attempt. I am planning to work on this magnificent Soyuz clock, which we have on loan from Steve Jurvetson's ...
2021-02-08 04:26:42 +0000 UTC View PostHP 7132A Strip Chart Recorder Snippet
Here is a small treat for the higher Patreon tiers. Sorry folks, I haven't done very mu...
2021-02-05 08:30:25 +0000 UTC View PostAnother Hewlett-Packard Loot in L.A.
There was (and still is) an ongoing auction in Los Angeles from the former Max Sands test instrument rental company. Which has tons of very, very antiquated instruments (how could they still possib...
2021-02-05 08:05:33 +0000 UTC View PostDial-A-Level lives again!
While on my expedition to Excess Solutions to pick up my enclosure for the Apollo GSE box project, I also snatched this 1970's "Dial-A-Level" contraption. I was looking for an on/off controller to ...
2021-01-24 05:44:39 +0000 UTC View PostBuilding an Apollo-style GSE control panel
It seems that a few of you had Apollo Twist-Lite switches in your drawers, and on top of that are generous enough to donate them to the channel. Thanks to your generosity, and also to some good eBa...
2021-01-06 23:15:51 +0000 UTC View Post2020 ends with an HP 9825 Meltdown!
2020 was *really* a rotten year. While I was filming my 100k subs video, on the last day of 2...
2021-01-06 22:23:04 +0000 UTC View PostCheap auction lot brings nice surprise from the 1960s
You guessed it, I won yet another auction lot. The "reason" I got this was for the Bird Wattmeter (that is, if there ever was any reasoning in this of course). But it turned out the juicy stuff was...
2020-12-05 06:10:01 +0000 UTC View PostMy HP 8447F RF Amplifier is Repaired!
I thought this repair was going to be trivial and a bit boring, so I didn't film it. However it predictably degenerated into the usual bunch of unexpected surprises, so here is the story in picture...
2020-11-26 07:27:48 +0000 UTC View PostMagic Vintage Electronics Repair Pants
Shameless plug for merch. I made a reproduction of the HP dude's magic pants on my Teespring store: 2020-11-09 23:23:32 +0000 UTC View Post
HP Microwave Amp Module Goodness
I recently bought yet another HP 8447F. Actually it came bundled in a very cheap lot that I got for another instrument so it is sort of a nice freebee. It contains two lab grade wideband amplifiers...
2020-10-24 23:35:55 +0000 UTC View PostQuick video update: catching the HP clock in the act!
YouTube direct link: https://youtu.be/wbbx4Mam3as
Today I was able to visualize the HP 9825 and the Nanoprocessor interact...
2020-10-16 05:42:27 +0000 UTC View Post1 MHz Crystal and IC Post Mortem
I had to know. I opened (carefully) the 1 MHz crystal that had failed. I suspected some kind of mechanical failure and boy, did it have one. Or many. A big bad scallop had been taken out, you can s...
2020-10-06 07:18:50 +0000 UTC View PostLots of HP Nanoprocessors and TI Clock Chips
My previous video on TI clock chips was a (rewarding) detour on the road to repair my HP 98035 clock modules. Thanks to the contributions of former HP 9825 developer Steve Leibson 2020-10-04 02:52:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Patron only demonetized video
Dang. Even if you put cover music and cover artist credits, these days it still gets demonetized. But the Patrons get the better version no matter what :-).
LED Watch Chip Goodness
Remember that Chinese sourced TI clock chip that we decapped with Antoine? Not fake at all tells me Ken Shirriff. But does it actually work? It sure did not when I put it on my HP board. One simple...
2020-09-27 08:31:42 +0000 UTC View PostWeird Clocks Family Portrait
After putting back together my Soyuz clock, I assembled my various other clocks for a family portrait:
- the large flip clock is my Solari Dator 10 2020-09-10 04:39:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Intel 486SX poster installed!
Antoine sent me this giant printout of one of his many splendid chip pictures. It has been installed as part of the lab beautification project. Thanks Antoine! I feel a chip poster business coming....
2020-09-08 00:57:54 +0000 UTC View PostTaking a pause for inventory
I have been taking a little pause from videos to re-organize and do an inventory of my collection. I was starting to lose track of which item came from whom, when and for how much, and with quite a...
2020-08-27 06:32:46 +0000 UTC View PostCollecting in Quarantine
Pic 1: We might be in quarantine, but July has been a great month for the collection. And in no small part thanks to viewers and generous Patrons.
Pic 2: Patron John Lawson, whose tube ...
2020-07-30 09:01:56 +0000 UTC View PostGenius Model Maker Makes Miniature Retro Computers
If you had not seen this before, Canadian modeling genius Nicolas Temese keeps making astounding models of retro gear.
His HP 2645A terminal has a screen that actually works! View his f...
2020-07-17 21:56:36 +0000 UTC View PostMy NAD amp is fine, thank you very much.
I took out the old HP 428B current probe to check that the current going in my power supply components is normal, and that I just didn't cover up another fault, as the conspiracy mill says on YouTu...
2020-07-13 06:40:41 +0000 UTC View PostCarl's DSKY relight project short video
Carl has released a nice short video were he shows his progress on re-lighting two original Apollo DSKY displays. He has now switched on the second display which is similar to the flown ones, and h...
2020-07-08 00:05:43 +0000 UTC View PostPulser Perfect
This is a little epilogue to the HP 8082A pulser repair. I swapped the second circuit in, with the faster transistors, and it indeed produces narrower minimum width pulses, with the required 1 ns r...
2020-06-28 04:27:37 +0000 UTC View PostCarl's clickety DSKY
Carl sent us this video of his DSKY clicking away. This is a genuine Block I DSKY screen controlled by a genuine DSKY Block I relay module. These were latching relays (with mechanical "memory"), an...
2020-06-27 07:33:19 +0000 UTC View Post1202 in Carl's Lab
Looks like Carl has hit a 1202 in the lab while in P63! He has been working on trying to light up an original DSKY luminescent display from Marcel's collection. He's got an original DSKY high volta...
2020-06-08 18:07:56 +0000 UTC View PostPower Supply Repaired (preview)
Well it ended up all good, but not without a few more twists. Just finished the video, will likely make it public tomorrow, but you get to know (and post public comments if you watch in on YouTube)...
2020-05-24 01:23:13 +0000 UTC View PostHP 8082A "quick" restoration turns into IC reproduction project
While I was waiting for the replacement ICs that died in a sparky power supply incident last week, I decided to turn my attention to a recently acquired HP 8082A fast pulse generator. I thought it ...
2020-05-18 00:59:30 +0000 UTC View Post