26 August 2024

FM antenna hack on a rented car

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This Summer we spent 10 days driving around Greece in a rented car. Being high season I looked for cheaper alternatives to the big names. ...
15 August 2024

Fairchild Multimeter Model 7050

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I bought a Fairchild 7050 multimeter because it has slightly larger than usual Nixies. There was no indication of its state, but I could cou...
31 July 2024

Texas Instruments Consumer Circuits Data Book 1978

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I bought this book at Marzaglia fair 2024. I have never owned a data book, so this was a chance to fill that gap. The index looks very inter...
30 July 2024

Free coffee on Lufthansa flights (Summer 2024)

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If you are going to fly with Lufthansa this Summer 2024 you might be able to secure a free coffee onboard. I discovered this by chance and...
01 July 2024

Friedrichshafen Ham Fair mystery

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Both in 2023 and 2024 I had a strange encounter in the flea market area of Friedrichshafen Ham Messe. There is a guy from Far East (China, ...
30 June 2024

Friedrichshafen 2024: the year of the dekatron

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My visit to the largest(?) HAM radio event in Europe 2024 is over. This year I could spend the whole Friday to wander around the halls. Ov...
25 May 2024

Virus removed, after 30 years. A tale of retrocomputing.

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Armed with F-PROT 2.24 on a write-protected 3.5" floppy disk I tackled the infected machine. First of all I wanted to be sure that the...
20 May 2024

Limited resources. A tale of retrocomputing

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Having unlimited access to the resources of a computing history museum has diverted my free time activities to different kind of equipment: ...