Viewer Mail!

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Ай бұрын

Time for some Viewer Mail! Vintage goodies and some fan mail too. Enjoy!
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@TentoesMe Ай бұрын

Oh! I loved the deep, angry red those Fairchild LEDs made! Halloween of '74, I put 2 of those on a battery and set them far down in the ditch where it was very dark in the country. Two evil, unblinking eyes glared at you! Later that evening, I was walking along with a friend from down the road. He saw those and did NOT want to go any farther!

@toyfreaks 21 күн бұрын

OMG thank you for the idea of using a big ol' clamp just to hold a piece while you work on it. Half a century of wrecking stuff, and I never thunk of it

@toyfreaks 21 күн бұрын

Also, can I say how much I love the 1932 Chicago Elevator Font on the counter wheels?!

@repeatdefender6032 Ай бұрын

Wait holy cow when did I get gifted a membership?? That's badass whoever did that, thank you! I've wanted to support Fran for years, but I'm on disability so I'm too broke.

@graemedavidson499 Ай бұрын

I wonder if there is a generation who remembers their first LED….

@elvinhaak Ай бұрын

Lots of us!

@DeDeNoM Ай бұрын

My dad will sometimes tell the story of how he went to the local electronic parts store and bought his first led. Must have been in the late 60s, maybe early 70s.

@FranLab Ай бұрын

That would be my generation, kid.

@bobpockney Ай бұрын

Can't remember the date, but definitely. Seemed like magic, rather like transistors as my first electronic projects used valves.

@precisiond2236 Ай бұрын

At Radio Shed or Hut whatever, In the 60s and bought a assortment of LEDs, yellow, orange, red. still have some, being a kid about 8 they were the greatest.

@qwertyFUBAR Ай бұрын

The step counter was used by cities to record the number of nuclear direct hits. When they turned to 99999 you were supposed to turn in the city for recycle and refurbish. These were from a smaller city that operated on 12v

@JimTheZombieHunter Ай бұрын

The meter .. or aggregate counter, brings back memories. I used to reset them when I refurbished certain equipment. This was not dishonest, as we never sold refurb kit as new, the meter was used solely for our billing and service, and well .. customers just like to see "zero" on first power. I tried at first "slipping the cams" but there were failure rates. I tried writing a GW basic program (what ever happened to my IBM SX-45?) that used the parallel port (and a transistor) that would query the current reading and calculate pulsees back to zero .. but never did the math on how long that would take, and the solenoids don't like overclocking. Finally figured out plain dumb old compressed shop air with the blower nozzle on the LSD would spin them back in three or four minutes. I remember those Rat Shack LED packs. I saved up for one in c. 1977 .. $3.99. Not the pretty ones you have, but they were miniature white base, red diffused lens .. no idea if they had an official form factor.

@urglegurgle5807 Ай бұрын

Hey Fran, good to see a Fairchild FLV102 on viewer mail again. Always a joy to see. Hoping to see a FLV100 or FLV101 on your channel sometime, preferably one with the redundant third leg.

@devinsullivan6160 Ай бұрын

Did my time machine break and get us stuck in a loop? *confused* Well, I'll hit that thumbs up again 🤔

@tedmich Ай бұрын

Veeder Root! My first job after college I set up a series of their time meters to keep track of how much ammonia and antifoam our bacteria used overnight. Without antifoam the mornings were very...messy.

@michaelmoore7975 Ай бұрын

Love me some _electro-mechanical._ 2 fields of engineering to make a little magic....bah digital! Proof? My clothes washer and dryer. No infuriating locking lid. Just a timer made to trip switches. I can fix everything....cheap. When you see that baby shakin' across the floor, you _know_ them clothes are gonna be clean.

@davepost7675 Ай бұрын

That click-clack is very satisfying. So much so, that I think I'd hook it up to the one second pulse generator. I wonder how to reset the counter to zero. This one happened to roll over, but in general, I wonder the correct way to zero the counter.