[GreenKeys] INKTRONIC on EBay

[Nick England]

Is anyone here bidding on this?
I was ignoring it until Don House sent me the photo that shows it is a Navy
AN/URG-14. I don't really want one (I'm trying really hard to stick to
M28), but will save it if necessary. I recall seeing one of these in the
Navy lab where I worked back around 1970.

Nick England K4NYW
www.navy-radio.com

On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 7:29 PM, Andy Williams <andywilliams at pobox.com>
wrote:

> I worked on some automated test stands in the early 80s that used the
> Varian 620 as the controller. They had huge circuit boards in them with a
> mixture of TTL and DTL and a 5 MB hard drive the size of a washing machine
> tub that had to be pressurized with atomic grade helium. I remember fixing
> one computer that had bad electrolytics in the power supply, a problem I’m
> still dealing with in antique radios. The older test sets used model a
> model 35 KSR as the terminal and newer ones used a model 43. One of the 35s
> had an intermittent printing problem, so I got the teletype shop to clean
> and align it and it worked perfectly after that. Afterwards, the teletype
> tech told me that the printer was so gummed up that he had to clean out the
> ultrasonic cleaner.
>
> > On Jun 27, 2016, at 9:50 PM, Jeffrey D Angus <jdangus at att.net> wrote:
> >
> > On 6/27/2016 7:20 PM, Andy Williams wrote:
> >> It was connected to a Varian 620 computer.
> > Shudder....
> >
> > I bought one on auction for $500 back in the early '80s.
> > A 4-bay rack full of stuff including a pair of Pertek removable disc
> drives.
> > An an absolute beast printer.
> > Huge rotating drum. A line printer. It would shoot paper up to the
> ceiling
> > if the corona wire failed.
> > I actually got the silly bastard up and running then sold it to someone
> > before they could change their mind. ;-)
> >
> > --
> > Jeff-1.0
> > wa6fwi
> > http://www.foxsmercantile.com
> >
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