Recycling
Repair rant....Often people say, “oh it’s not worth fixing, I’ll buy a new one”. Well that’s okay, if you are myopic. I sometimes agree, some things can be uneconomic to repair, for various reasons ...
Articles
Felt and Tarrant Comptometer, best adding machine.
Felt and Tarrant Comptometer, best adding machine.Friends and clients Pete Underwood and his wife came into the play pen today, sporting a gift that they knew I would like.This machine is a ...
BSR, the record deck company
If, like me, you are a ‘50s-‘60s ite, you probably remember stacking records up on an automatic turntable, watching the first drop, being played then another dropping and so on. Spotify, eat your ...
Valves relaxing
After a few cold months huddled together in their respective cardboard boxes, a few members of extended valve family decided to have a few hours relaxing in the sun. Looks like at least one should ...
Abbey Road Recording Studios
Abbey Road Recording Studios We have all seen the famous photo of the Beatles walking across the zebra crossing toward Abbey Road Studios. Where did that all begin I hear you frantically ask.In the ...
Happy Christmas!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cC3Ymd9P8U
85 years of TV – Now in Colour! An update
Celebrating 85 years of TV – Now in Colour!Well, it is 85 years since the first official TV broadcasts were made from Alexandra Palace. The East Wing of Ali Palais had been converted into studios, ...
Hedley Jones….. Know about him?
A little off piste this one. As you know, I like writing about engineers and personalities that, in my opinion never received the recognition that they deserved. This chap did, sort of receive ...
Bill Tutte – Bletchley park
Thos e of you who read my articles regularly, will appreciate that I have a passion for vintage electronics, engineers who have stamped their mark on our lives and who have gone somewhat unsung. I ...
A brief history of time, Car radios!
Now, the radio and car were invented around about the same time, Marconi did the radio and another chap did the car. One day, in the 1930s, someone had the bright idea of putting the two together. ...
Let’s have black & white 405 line television back!
In the 30s John Logie Baird was playing with his version of television. This was an electro-mechanical system and consisted of a metal disc with holes punched in it spinning in front a neon tube. The ...
Bring back 78 rpm records???
A customer came in the other day, whilst I was repairing a 1950s record player. I actually had a 78rpm 10” record on the machine testing it. The customer, in her early 20s, looked amazed, wondering ...
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