[GreenKeys] HAL ST-8000A

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Bill Perry can be reached at 502-893-8724.  He's EST.  For newer stuff (mid 
60's on), he's probably the best bet if you're looking for surplus prices 
(which is not the same as saying 1950's prices).  For older stuff there are a 
number of us who have small stocks of a wide range of military and commercial grade 
connectors.  For the most part, none of us, Bill included, have any minimum 
order rules which may not be the case with the commercial vendors.  

FWIW (ref another post on this thread), the common tendency of various groups 
to call connectors Amphenol plugs (or connectors), Cannon plugs, Bendix 
connectors, Appleton connectors, etc, should generally be avoided if you are 
looking for something.  Depending upon what group you grew up in and what group the 
person you're speaking with came up in, those terms can have either the same 
or totally different meanings.  The fact is that each of the contractors 
mentioned made some of the same things and each made things the others never did.  
So the contractor name doesn't adequately ID the part family.  In short, you 
should avoid using those four terms unless you are certain you know what they 
mean to the person you're talking to.  As an example, in the older geophysical 
industry, most of the old Oil Patch, and the older commercial audio industries, 
Cannon Plug meant a Cannon K-Series connector.  Which probably few of you 
have ever seen unless you're also into WW-II vintage Naval aircraft radios or the 
TCS.

In a message dated 7/27/2008 10:46:26 PM Central Daylight Time, 
richardschumann at comcast.net writes: 
> Thank you Howard, Robert, Don, and Ron....what a great resource!
> 
> Tony, the specs are here on Hal's site:
> 
> http://www.halcomm.com/ST8000A.htm
> 
> Richard kn7sfz
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Don Cunningham" <wb5hak at martineer.net>
> To: "Richard Schumann" <richardschumann at comcast.net>; 
> <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2008 5:04 PM
> Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] HAL ST-8000A
> 
> 
> >Richard,
> >I have ordered a NOS ST-8000A that was talked about here on the reflector, 
> >but it thankfully has a full set of the connectors.  I believe Wm Perry 
> >might have at least the pins, but I don't have his contact info at hand 
> >tonight.  If I find it in my "archives", I'll forward it.  The 
> >Macrotronics M800, as my old memory recalls, was a specialty unit designed 
> >for either the old Radio Shack Model I or Model IV (maybe both) computers, 
> >and would need one of those computers and the software that came with it 
> >or LOTS of re-engineering, hi.  I actually had one of those and ran RTTY 
> >with it for a long time.  Decent unit, for its time.
> 

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