Who needs PCB's!!

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MichaelB

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Aug 11, 2011, 11:21:35 AM8/11/11
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Who needs PCB's when you've got good ole' fashion point to point!
Really cool!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MvupoHGV-Q

Adam Jacobs

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Aug 11, 2011, 11:26:08 AM8/11/11
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Looks like the inside of my Swan 500c transceiver. An elegant design for
a more civilized time..

one thing that I _will_ say for bus-strips, they make it a whole heck of
a lot easier to replace faulty passive components. Even with new
components that are nothing like the same shape as the old ones.

-Adam W7ATJ

Joe Croft

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Aug 11, 2011, 12:13:46 PM8/11/11
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I love point to point wiring like that!!! God only knows how they could afford
putting that much manual labor into a product. I have a Drake 2B vacuum tube
radio which is just as pretty :)

-joe

David Forbes

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Aug 11, 2011, 12:20:31 PM8/11/11
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On 8/11/11 9:13 AM, Joe Croft wrote:
> I love point to point wiring like that!!! God only knows how they could afford
> putting that much manual labor into a product. I have a Drake 2B vacuum tube
> radio which is just as pretty :)
>
> -joe
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MvupoHGV-Q
>

They could afford to do that by charging a lot of money for consumer
electronics. A color television cost half as much as a new car in the
mid-1950s.

--
David Forbes, Tucson AZ

Joe Croft

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Aug 11, 2011, 12:38:34 PM8/11/11
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If I remember correctly, they were half the size of a new car back in the 50's
as well :)

-joe

J Forbes

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Aug 11, 2011, 12:45:10 PM8/11/11
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Good stuff....no US company could afford to make things this way today
in the US

http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/25f0f52de3afb42e_large

jim

threeneurons

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Aug 11, 2011, 1:22:23 PM8/11/11
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> http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/25f0f52de3afb42e_large

My mother worked for Hoffman, but after they got out of TV business:

http://www.tvhistory.tv/1950-59-HOFFMAN.htm

She as an assembler, just like those ladies, in the first picture.

Jonathan Peakall

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Aug 13, 2011, 11:54:45 AM8/13/11
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No posts for a couple of days. Testing, one, two, three...

JohnK

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Aug 13, 2011, 12:06:12 PM8/13/11
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Nope, can't read you :-))

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Mich...@aol.com

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Aug 13, 2011, 12:06:32 PM8/13/11
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four

Dan Harboe Burer

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Aug 13, 2011, 12:07:43 PM8/13/11
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Nah.. just "The Sound of Silence" ;o)

Dan

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