(a build-it-yourself PDP-8 clone) NOT!

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Wednesday 14 June 2006 01:38 am, woodelf wrote:
> Roy J. Tellason wrote:
> > Yes indeed,  I've built a few things like that.  Very short hunks of
> > dowel at the corners for "feet" so that screw heads wouldn't be dragging,
> >  and fahnstock (sp?) clips for the connections "off-board".  :-)
>
> Oddly most of the tubes and small parts you can find for still
> bread-boarding a radio. It is only the transformers and coils
> that are a pain to find as they say use ABC-123 coil for the broadcast
> band and XYZ-987 for ... .

Coils have *always* been a PITA for me,  which is why I'm thinking lately of 
building some kind of gadget to measure inductance,  even if it's as simple 
as a bridge or something...

> But if you like breadboard radios check out
> http://www.schmarder.com/radios/index.htm and Dave's fine collection.

I'll try and have a look tomorrow,  as I'm fading fast here.  :-)

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