[Milsurplus] C1-57, Komrad ?

[Hubert Miller]

I have a flier advertising an oscilloscope type C1-57, made in USSR, dated
1971. It's kind of a Rosetta stone in

that it describes the instrument in several languages. One sheet, folded. 

It doesn't really fit into my wide assemblage of paper.

I will mail it free. In unlikely case of multiple requests, your explanation
of why you're interested might help.

Your address with your first email. This rule is always a stumbling block;
apparently it's hard to understand.

 

I got this, i think, at a Trade Fair in Seattle around 1972, held at a City
Center exhibition hall. Mostly it was 

heavy farm equipment, tractors and such, all in deep John Deere green. There
were several very serious looking 

men in suits standing around at the periphery of the exhibits, observing
everything.  I was happy to discover

transistor  radios also displayed, but was amazed  to see all the tuning
scales marked in meters, not kHz. There 

also was a Hi-Fi setup with a record turntable. I was amused that the
plastic dust cover was made of individual 

plastic pieces, sides and top, glued or bonded together - i'd never seen one
that was not cast in a single piece!

"Why make one the hard way?" i thought. I  turned to call my friend Jaxon
over to see what i saw. My hand must 

have been on the dust cover, maybe i was tracing  along  the seam where the
pieces were joined. In an instant 

a serious man in a suit was standing next to me. "No touch!" he admonished. 

 

Ah, maybe next time, next installment, how a Russian sailor beat the owners
of an Army-Navy surplus store out

of $40,000. He got the gold, and they got a bag full of cut-up paper. 

-Hue Miller 

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