Re: Recovery from ancient hardware.

In article <slrnen39fp.gms.mlooney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Mike Looney <mlooney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sat, 2 Dec 2006 21:13:15 +1100, TimC
<tconnors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 2006-12-02, Mike Looney (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
Once we have thinned out the ranks, take the ones that passed the your test
and put them to work on the "computer" I started on.

That would be a ~1948 analog fire control system.

You'd have fun in our lifts.

I got shown the lift motor room a few days ago, when an AC-DC
generator wasn't shutting off after a minute. The timer for this
generator is a capacitor and another nixie tube (amazing where you
find nixie tubes). It is still the case that we don't have any spare
nixies, so when they die, we are one lift down.


Any oil filled variable resistors? Massive number of lin/log amps?

Not to mention the "Bill the Galatic Hero" level fuse banks.

Oh, one of *those*....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/31/a2083231.shtml

Chris.



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