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Good news: Not only has someone coined a word to describe the accumulation of unread books (積ん読), but also, positive connotations to go with it.
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That is good news! I now feel more comfortable leaving 'The Road to Reality' and 'A New Kind of Science' in their slumber on the bookshelf next to my bed
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Man, sometimes I miss having a local surplus electronics shop nearby! In the 1990s, one such shop had a stack of TV-7 B/U tube testers priced at $100/ea. I chose the one which seemed to be in the best condition, and got a number of years of good service out of it. Real handy, because it's compact, yet it could test pretty much everything I threw at it: 300B, 45, 6DS4 nuvistors, etc etc. Maybe not EM34 magic eyes, but do you really need a tube tester to know that your indicator tube is dim? Sold it awhile back for around $400, so I think I got decent value out of it.
I know it is only a tube tester but what a great looking tube tester. I like that style and era of the test and calibration gear.
This coinage did not [used to] apply to science/technical unread books... because they truly were "Reference" material.
Then, somebody moved the goal posts on us.
For HP fan, there is the HP48 emulator on android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.ab.x48
Still prefer RPN
Still prefer RPN
Have you seen this company? They make HP clones.
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That reminds me I still have an old dwell meter in the shed, even in the early 90’s as I trained as a mechanic there was still a few older cars running around with points. My MK1 VW Scirocco Storm (lovely beige/brown colour scheme
) used points but I changed over to an electronic module and crank sensor setup, much more reliable.
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Earth tones...My MK1 VW Scirocco Storm (lovely beige/brown colour scheme
My then-girlfriend's* Fiesta was, I like to say, dirt colored.
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* later, and still, wife's -- although the Fiesta's long gone.
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Old Mazda rotaries (RX2s/RX3s) with 3-electrode spark-plugs and hot coils also...
...w/opto-sensors because the points would weld themselves to each other and often.
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Old Mazda rotaries (RX2s/RX3s) with 3-electrode spark-plugs and hot coils also...
...w/opto-sensors because the points would weld themselves to each other and often.
Never had the opportunity to own a rotary but I did look after/service one regularly for a neighbour of my parents, oil changes every 3000miles put me off along with the sub 20mpg but I have to admit I loved the brief drives i had in it, the way it revved was so addictive and being a rotary the heavier the right foot then the more the engine loved it.
Here the original Wankel rotary engine Car Ro80 which I owned around 1975. Gas consume was 16 liter per 100 km, regardless whether city, road or autobahn. Unfortunately the engine went bad with big clouds of oilfog off the exhaust pipe.Old Mazda rotaries (RX2s/RX3s) with 3-electrode spark-plugs and hot coils also...
...w/opto-sensors because the points would weld themselves to each other and often.
I assembled one of these when I was ~14. Everything looked fine, but my lack of proper glue-skills meant the engine never rotated as smoothly as anticipated. I was able to show a neighbor how her car's engine worked, but I don't think she was too impressed with my mechanical/assembly skills. 
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