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

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

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A gold plate flat pack carrier, waiting for a circuit. [4032x3024 - 1.86MB]

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The 1962 General Electric HBK-8359 Turboencabulator. Panandermic semi-boloid stator slots! Manestically spaced grouting brushes! Prefabulated Amulite baseplate! Pentametric fan!

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Inside the Apple-1's unusual MOS clock driver chip

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We need a power supply...bro just toss whatever in the circuit, it will work. [1326x1276 - 165KB]

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BAM! ChugChugChug...

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

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PC-86-DOS | OS/2 Museum | Oldest known version of PC-DOS

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

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

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Working on an old signal tracer

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

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A case steam tractor.

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

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A Gunn Diode with cavity from 1962

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

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A big Hit and Miss engine. [4032x3024 - 5.79MB]

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I bought a vintage stereo receiver because I wanted to retrofit it. Well, the darn thing works perfectly. I mean everything. So what do I do now?

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$900 (adjusted) in 1938 vs. $900 today. [1600x1908 - 383KB]

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A Sparton console radio

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Everything from 1991 Radio Shack ad I now do with my phone (2014)

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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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How did this device even work? [1620x1552 - 170KB]

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Inside the guidance system and computer of the Minuteman III nuclear missile

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