[Milsurplus] Rodrigues cartoon

[J. Forster]

I still remember on a visit to London in the summer of about 1956 buying a
magazine (Wireless World maybe) that had part of a series about
"converting" an indicator, maybe an H2S or GEE or something like that,
full of those beautiful red EF-50s, to a domestic TV set.

What goes around, comes around. At that time the stuff was near junk, and
TVs expensive. Now you can get a good TV for <$500; a poor condition H2S
will bring >$20,000.

Funny world.

-John

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> Sort of reminds me of the RADAR scope I bought in high school, from a
> surplus
> house ad in a magazine; "Easy to convert into a first class workbench
> oscilloscope".
>
> Conversion instructions, Step One;
>
> "Remove ALL components from the chassis except cathode ray tube and front
> panel
> potentiometers. These components will not be required in the conversion,
> and
> may be discarded"!
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>>From: Hue Miller <kargo_cult at msn.com>
>>Sent: Sep 25, 2011 6:05 PM
>>To: milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
>>Subject: [Milsurplus] Rodrigues cartoon
>>
>>I thought I had already seen about every Rodrigues cartoon in PE and EI
>>magazines.
>>So I'm looking at PE for 4/ 1965 and a cartoon:  man looking at
>> DIRECTIONS
>>sheet;
>>on the table before a him, an opened large cardboard box: " FM TUNER
>> KIT".
>>On table, a punched, empty chassis. And some industrial looking large
>>rackmount
>>black box with handles and a connector plug and nameplate.  He's reading,
>>"To secure the PARTS for your hi-fi FM tuner, simply disassemble this war
>>surplus
>>radar receiver."
>>
>>via: Hue Miller
>>
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