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This 150-year-old technology is still mind blowing! This is a museum in the Netherlands.
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A transistor with two emitters? No way.
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Very unique Swiss tube radio from 1937 - "The battery that lasts 50 years - Bell Radio 537"
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Why Zip drives dominated the 90s, then vanished almost overnight
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The Last Lights of Chernobyl’s SKALA Computer [Chornobyl Family 🇺🇦] [11:42]
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On old silver-mica postage stamp capacitors. [469x460 - 51KB]
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Germanium crystal point-contact diode. [1138x1280 - 127KB]
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What if everything still ran on vacuum tubes? [The 8-Bit Guy] [23:02]
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When you open a 70 year old device and find something the OEM didn't do... [500x629 - 43KB]
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Time has not been kind to VHS — Harvard Gazette
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Kensington's Adding Machine Software from 1993
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Here's a quarter... [3864x5152 - 1.55MB]
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See The Computers That Powered The Voyager Space Program
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Can't save them all.
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Without internet connection russians started using SSTV technology... >_> [0:54]
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Soviet CDs And CD Players Existed, And They Were Strange
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A nearly eternal tire developed in the USSR [01:00]
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Performing a selenium rectifier replacement. [4032x3024 - 1.43MB]
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This was an interesting chassis. [4032x3024 - 1.17MB]
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A Magic Eye from a recent project [3024x4032 - 837KB]
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This Craftsperson Just Revived a 2,000-Year-Old Battery, And It Actually Works!
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This is going to take some work to clean.
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Some minor repair to an EICO 147a tracer last night. [1000x1307 - 172KB]
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Vintage Canadian Video Hardware Becomes Homebrew Computer
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Neat Chrysler Ad (Yuge) [6153x4062 - 3.82MB]
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