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another early morning electronics flea market here in silicon valley (West Valley College). we're so early the sellers haven't arrived yet.

no electronics yet. here, have an onion.

oh cool an Intel 286 design kit!

TDS 420. smokes when powered on

board test fixture. I'm wondering what those tiny boards are in the lid. maybe temperature sensors?

old school router with a floppy drive

straight from Fallout

neat old film movie camera

kind of a chaotic energy going on here

neat gauges that you might expect to find in a power plant

a Heathkit calculator with a Panaplex display

this card comes apart in two halves. very odd

wonder what these boards were from

oh a keyboard but just the board

vintage milk carton

some sort of early Apple chip kit.

expensive camera and lens

huh a cable for a NeXT machine

this toaster gets along with bread like a house on fire

caution: radiation from polonium is dangerous if the said material is ingested or inhaled. do not

piles of calculators

commodore calculator

some weird laser assembly

silicon valley retirement plan

the existence of this gauge makes me uneasy

extra long life battery. put in service before Feb 1943. think it's still good?

@tubetime had to read it three times because I really got stuck at thinking like what the hell is a “heaLthkit” calculator 😆

@tubetime I heard you like cards, so I put a card on your card so you can card while you card

@tubetime Might come in handy in the next decades! Just keep it generally below 2.

@tubetime oh, DANG! A logarithmic current meter?! That’s amazing! I mean, 10k mA is … carry the two… 10A, so not too scary. But the log scale is AMAZING.

@tubetime "Well, either the battery's good or we've got a problem, it's too soon to tell..."

@tubetime It's a DIY measurement device for excitement in the social network sphere. The mR/hr is a million rants per hour, isn't it!?

@tubetime What? Is Silicon Valley going to be retired?!

@tubetime My wife and I were discussing the other day that VLB is what truly killed 16-bit computers.

@tubetime I need to get down there to the flea market some time.

@tubetime Looks like a fiber optic cable splicer

@tubetime envious, that’s like a 3 episodes of YouTube videos hour long each !
How much did you pay for it ?

@tubetime *sniff* Where they'll finally find the actual number for Pi and the square root of -1.

@console @tubetime It's mainly for keeping dust off optics and vinyl records

@arclight @tubetime thanks!
Now I know a lot more about anti static brushes.
Way less dangerous than the scary label seems to suggest.

@tubetime neat, an antistatic brush

@tubetime I think that says "solid material" not "said material". Although I wonder what distinction the word might be trying to make. Is it safe to inhale and eat the dust? Or should we vaporize it first? :-) Yikes.

@tubetime Those are great antistatic brushes. I used one daily in the graphics biz in the 80s.

@tubetime I need stickers of that polonium warning to put on everything.

@tubetime
ooh... we've been using an old flopper for ages. IMO it makes the best toast!

@tubetime hey! My parents toaster!
Of course they didn’t go get a normal one. It was that thing!

@tubetime Those are actually in short supply!

@tubetime I would have to go home with that.

@proton @tubetime still has the San Jose Mercury News inventory tag on the other side