[NLRS] More "treasures" from the shack emptying

[tosca005 at umn.edu]

I hope no one is bothered by these postings, particularly for the items 
that are not exactly radio or test equipment.

I found an unused ADS Tech Pyro 1394b FireWire Card for a PCI bus slot that 
I bought long ago when I thought I would need it for SDR operation. But I 
never got a FireWire based SDR and so I never installed it in my PC. It has 
two 1394b ports at 800 Mbps and one 1394a port at 400 Mbps. It operates as 
either a 32-bit or 64-bit PCI card. Note, this is *NOT* a PCI-Express card! 
It has Texas Instruments chips on board. (I have heard that some chip sets 
are better than others for FireWire SDR, but I don't remember which are 
good and which are less good.) Free if you pick it up or if I can drop it 
off in the metro area; otherwise, whatever the post office charges me to 
mail it (shouldn't be much).

I also re-discovered a portable CD-ROM player, a Panasonic KXL-783A. It has 
a built-in audio amp and speakers so it can play audio CD's as a 
stand-alone device, or you can connect it to a computer vith the included 
PCMCIA card as a CD-ROM. Yes, this is old tech, not a CD burner, not a DVD 
reader or burner, but if you happened to have an old laptop (for example) 
with a vacant PCMCIA slot but no internal optical drive, this could be 
valuable to you. Same price as the prior item, i.e. free for pickup or 
metro delivery, or at cost to mail it via USPS.

If neither item is claimed, I will be sending them to the Dakota County 
electronics reycling center (with a tear in my eye).

73 de W0JT, John
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