I was watching a program today on the Science Channel called “Moon Machines – The Navigation Computer.” This is a six part series that reviews the history of the development of the systems required to complete the Apollo mission to the moon. This particular episode was on the development of the Navigation Computer used in […]
Read More..>>I’ve added a new page to the website, a How-To on replacing filer caps in the Heathkit HP-24 power supply. The HP-24 is the AC power supply for the Heathkit HA-14 Compact Kilowatt linear amplifier. The supply was in serious need of having the filter caps replaced. So I shot a few photos with the […]
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Comments(0) Man, I really love it when things work the way they are supposed to. Last night I fired up my notebook to check some emails and to pull up a technical manual that I wanted to read. The manual was located on a RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Drives) drive downstairs in the radio room. […]
Read More..>>My friend Bob in Florida sent me this link to an article in Pravda titled “The American Self Immolation, Truly a Sight to See” The article is about how the USA is sowing the seeds of it’s own destruction with our current economic policies. The author has a particularly interesting view on of the “Cap […]
Read More..>>The older I get, the more I enjoy Saturday mornings. Perhaps it’s the slow pace of Saturday morning, not having to get ready to go off to work, or maybe it’s the unbounded joy of not having to be at work! Either way, the first few hours of a Saturday morning are most enjoyable. A […]
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