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Engineer repurposes old pay phones for rural areas without cell service

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Borax or Baking Soda Diodes

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Beautiful VFD Clock Gives New Life to Old Tubes - Hackster.io

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PlayTape Portable 2-Track Player

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Just a trailer full of hit n miss engines. [4032x3024 - 4.84MB]

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The Honeywell Kitchen Computer: The 1960s Meal Planner That Nobody Could Afford - Rare Historical Photos

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An engine running a pumpjack, pumping it's own cooling water. [0:11]

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Picked up this old Regency EC-175 at Dayton [3024x4032 - 972KB]

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My friend this VCR ancestor from 1970 [3000x4000 - 865KB]

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Picked up this small, old soldering iron at the Cleveland Hamfest today. [1280x489 - 121KB]

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A case steam tractor.

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Time Systems model 410 Nixie Tube Frequency Counter [4032x3024 - 2.38MB]

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Amsat-Oscar 7: The Ham Satellite That Refused To Die

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Interesting old desk phone.

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No more arcing in the socket makes this vacuum tube sig gen happy. [3024x3066 - 583KB]

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End of an era: AOL discontinues dial-up internet service after more than 30 years

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A Leeds and Northrup 8686 Millivolt Potentiometer [4032x3024 - 4.76MB]

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Working on an old signal tracer

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Picked this up at the Cincy hamfest

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A Gunn Diode with cavity from 1962

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The AC Voltmeter I keep in the main room. [4032x3024 - 1.91MB]

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@dont_mind_me here's your rusty oscilloscope.

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The digital ranging system that measured the distance to the Apollo spacecraft

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Sometimes you want to go back in time and slap people who designed something [3024x4032 - 802KB]

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How To Lace Cables Like It’s 1962

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