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it's the first electronics flea market of the year here in silicon valley! (electronicsfleamarket.com)

fancy door on this PC case!

"sticky keys has been enabled"

oh hey something I designed

tubes! gotta love these portable kits

@tubetime with that many scopes, someone may even get promoted!

</big tech joke>

@flameeyes @tubetime they must be heavy, so lots of "impact", waiting to happen.

@tubetime That poor Fluke DMM had had a tough life.

@tubetime neat. Was that an A2000 on top of the machine?

@root42 no that was an AST 486 machine

@tubetime @root42 Also I ended up buying the AST 486. It's missing it's CPU but seems otherwise complete.

@kiteless it's a very cute little machine

@tubetime some keys were so sticky they are now permanently welded to the fingertips.

Tube⛄Time, unrelated to the dirt, this is the most cursed arrow key placement I've seen so far

@tubetime do you have indiscrete 555 times too? :kaia_lewd:

@kaia yes but we don't talk about those

@tubetime WTF is going on with the key sizes and arrangement, alphabetical ordering isn't the issue, but getting bigger from left to right and the key on the right hand side of the screen being not parallel?

@tubetime I dunno, I think that looks awesome.

@tubetime Ah the EMSL overstock sale is bittersweet.

@tubetime I’ve got access to a storage locker with (roughly catalougued) 83000 vacuum tubes….

Would love some ideas what to do with them; preferably liquidating en-masse for a few bucks. Any suggestions?

@mWare sounds like you're going into business soon

@tubetime I have one of those from my late grandpa's old TV/appliance store!

@tubetime I wish I had more time to explore tube circuits... one day.

@tubetime I loved that kit! Thank you for making it.

@tubetime uuuh, nice!

I remember this era and that some of us believed you should never open or close these doors with the PC on because it would "scratch the HDD"

@tubetime
I never seen such a fancy door mechanism in a PC case, so cool 🤩😍️.

@tubetime Soooo fun fact, that was my hand and me making all the slow door groaning noises! Was very good to meet you again Mr. @tubetime 😅

@tubetime *waits patiently for the drive bay image to finish downloading*

@tubetime The sound track is the best part

@tubetime@mastodon.social We are still using this old analog oscilloscope at university for electronics practice ​:suya:

@tubetime I was so tempted to buy that power supply whose posterior is at lower left here but I realized I already have too many power supplies.

(I have already come to terms with the fact I have too many oscilloscopes and didn't buy any, though that Tek 11000 series someone had tempted me...)

@tubetime I wish there was stuff like this near me. Looks like it would be so much fun.

@tubetime Added the upcoming ones to my calendar in hopes of finally checking this out sometime.