26 Sep
2001
26 Sep
'01
3:15 a.m.
At 09:49 AM 9/26/01 -0500, Gunther Schadow wrote:
This is hilarious. Congratulations. What will you be
investigating with your electron microscope? Be sure
to also take some sort of microtome; otherwise you won't
be able to use the microscope. If I had been offered this,
I would probably have passed it (may be on to some
museum.) In my opinion, for a hobbyist, an electron
raster microscope is much more exciting, and smaller
too.
I already have an old AO 820-style microtome for my Leitz,
and a Reichert Ultracut ultramicrotome that's missing a
few bits. What I really need is a sputterer. What will
I do with it? "Just look at stuff." I'd like to scan
old chip silicon, for example, beyond biological targets.
I've been tinkering with a web site at
http://www.threedee.com/jmosn/microscopes/index.html
if you want to see them. Lots of nice German optics. :-)
From a classic computing sense, I'm also eager to see what's
inside the PGT System 4 digitizing computer.
I may have to disassemble a wall to get it into the
basement, though. I think that's one of the signs
that your hobby Has Gone Too Far. :-)
- John