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well, eventually i will probably replace them.

but for now this'll do, I can read the screen for the moment

this old thing is riddled with problems, which isn't surprising considering it's age. ...

ok, a little update.

after trying to measure these things and receiving unreliable results
I did find someone in a forum somewhere say 100kohm but he was talking about the 5151 monitor.

at any ...

I have been there and while there is significant amount of useful information there I have yet to find this.

however I have determined that the brightness pot is mostly okay.
I had thought both we ...

hi there

I got myself this 5155 portable PC to mess with.

it looks as if someone upgraded it steadily through the 80's and even had a small (for an mfm type) hard drive screwed on a control boar ...

Well... the stuff is sold now.
Hope you were the one to get it

well...
i did stumble upon an auction on the german ebay that would relieve you of a lot of headache should you win it.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Compaq-Computer-Zubehorkonvolut-Historische-Computer ...

That would certainly make things easier for me,
If you can spare it i'll take it.
We'll see if it works

I recently got my hands on one of those and can't wait to look at some pixels on a red gas plasma screen.
But there's a problem. Aside from not having it in my hands yet i'm told that it's missing it ...

In nyc and other places that adapted electricity early,. some places only had dc power.
on the early 1950's radios and tv sets were "transformerless" if intended for use in these areas.

...

i went to two types of buildings... first i visited a concrete block which had half been demolished and all that was left were six bachelor apartments (and four joint bathrooms) so any heavy duty plug ...

well... naturally some of it is the american stuff i had recently acquired that i put there for size comparison since i assumed you would roughly know the basic switches and their sizes...
it'd also ...

the order of things is a mess... but i put together a flickr group of pictures

there it is:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/1110467@N23/pool/

hope you find it interesting

hello

i was going to post some images yesterday... but have been busy helping people (i am visiting my old hometown and a lot of ppl needed my help with various things)

i will try and post a few ...

yes... i've read something about split phase method in america to get 230 volts out of 2x115 phases 180° apart... here sometimes electricity is two out of three phases 120°apart... then each line is r ...

and I'm sure that even though the base was in another country, it was just wired with standard switches for familiarity and 115VAC/60Hz to allow soldiers to bring their own stuff from home without usi ...