Find:
About Me
Blogs
- Antique Radio Blog
- Arcane Radio Trivia
- Audio Tweak
- Audioklassiks
- BuildLounge
- Classic Receivers
- Coffman Labs Blog
- Confessions of a Part-Time Audiophile
- EEVBlog
- Engineering Radio
- Glowbugs Times
- Glowbugs Web
- Guitar Fool
- Hack a Day
- HeavyDIY
- High on Solder
- Ilektronx
- MicroSyl
- Nick's Radio Corner
- Old Stock Audio
- Pragmaddux
- Radio Stuff
- Radio Time Traveller
- Richard Sears, Vintage Electronics
- Seventies Stereo
- The Paleotechnologist
- The Signal Path
- Tube Addict
- TubeSound
Friends
Resources
- 901
- Active Equalizer
- AM
- amplifier
- Antique
- antique radio
- audiophile
- Bose
- Bose 901
- Bose Active Equalizer
- Bose Equalizer
- bose equalizer repair
- bose repair
- capacitor
- capacitor replacement
- cost engineering
- Craigslist
- eBay
- Equalizer
- fried electronics
- GE
- General Electric
- grunow
- grunow 586
- grunow 589
- grunow chassis 5-U
- grunow radio restoration
- ham radio
- hf
- hi-fi
- HP
- KN0CK
- laptop
- LCD
- LF-116
- old radio
- oscilloscope
- philco
- photos
- power supply
- projects
- radio
- rca
- rebuild
- repair
- replacement
- restoration
- RTL-SDR
- RTLSDR
- SDR#
- seattle vintage radio repair
- Series 1
- series I
- series II
- series IV
- shortwave
- soldering
- Sony
- Speakers
- speaker spotter
- stereo
- stromberg-carlson
- test equipment
- transistor radio
- tube
- Tube Amp
- tube radio
- up-converter
- Upconverter
- vacuum tube
- vintage
- vintage ad
- vintage radio
- Westinghouse
- zenith
Categories
May 2024 S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Meta
Category Archives: Computers
Bad Caps in Everything
I just had a bit of a scare with my Audio Precision analyzer. The 2004-era Dell OptiPlex GX270 which drives the AP hardware decided it would refuse to power up – just flashing the “ON” light for a fraction of … Continue reading
Posted in Computers, DIY, Electronics, Test Equipment
Tagged audio precision, capacitors, motherboard, system one, windows 98
3 Comments
Screenshots from HP 3585A Spectrum Analyzer via GPIB?
I’m wondering if anyone reading this might have some experience and could chime in. I’m trying to make my HP 3585A spectrum analyzer talk to my Windows XP laptop over GPIB (488.1) with a National Instruments PCMCIA-GPIB card. I’ve been … Continue reading
Posted in Computers, DIY, Electronics, Test Equipment
Tagged computer, gpib, hp 3585a, ke5fx, keysight intuilink, spectrum analyzer
4 Comments
Play Quake 1 on an Oscilloscope
Pekka Väänänen must have been bored over the holidays, as he came up with a fantastic and fascinating new use for an oscilloscope and a laptop: playing a round of Quake on his Hitachi V-422 scope in X-Y mode. After … Continue reading
Posted in Computers, DIY, Electronics, Gadgets
Tagged lofibucket, oscilloscope, quake, quakescope, vector, video game
2 Comments
Steampunk USB Vacuum Tube Flash Drives
I ran across these very cool steampunk-inspired USB flash drives drives built around a vacuum tube while looking for some tube shields. They look like they’re really well built and are a clever use of an old vacuum tube. I … Continue reading
A neat discovery to add more storage to a laptop.
I acquired a few HP ProBook 4415s laptops which had been scrapped, and decided to rebuild them into working machines. I’ve been needing a new personal/media laptop for a bit, and these are capable little machines with an HDMI output … Continue reading
HP ProBook 1415s Salvage Project
I recently came up with 3 mostly-stripped HP ProBook 1415s laptops that were being thrown out. They’re decent little machines – WXGA (720p) screens, dual-core AMD processors with decent onboard graphics and HDMI output. I have compatible laptop memory and … Continue reading
Hands On with the new Acer Chromebook 13
I was recently in the market for a new laptop to replace my aging ProBook 4415S. It was a middle of the road HP business laptop from 2009, and over the years I’d upgraded the RAM to 4GB and installed … Continue reading →