Antique radio and military electronics in Silicon Valley 2

Having spent an hour trying to trim my last post to the IT-speciofied 7000 HTML characters (including spaces) I am too mad right now to do anything but just post the remainer of the blog here, without even bothering to cross-link them. Let our IT genuises do that, should they have the time.

My new three-phase Variac—actually it is a Powerstat but it should work well with the 208 3-phase power here at my office/shop/loft/warehouse/consulting-place megaplex. They charged me 2 dollars but only after I protested when they tried to give it to me for free.

My new Clough-Brengle CRA oscilloscope. It cost ten dollars. I think I will give it to Bob Pease or Jim Williams as a joke gift.

I scored these three meters—a null-reading milliampere meter, a big old DC voltmeter and a microampere meter. Like I said, read my latest article and sidebar to see why these are cool. Cost? Three bucks each for the big ones and two bucks for the center one. Don’t you wish you lived in Silicon Valley?