Mailbag Monday
Flux Capacitor T-Shirts: http://teespring.com/stores/eevblog
How NOT to blow up your oscilloscope (Isolation & Grounding): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaELqAo4kkQ
How a Microwave Magnatron Works
PCB Holder
Magazine Memories
Memory Stacks
Isolated USB-RS232 Interface
LGB Model Train Controller & Decoder
Caterpillar Dump Truck Controller
2114 SRAM Memory: http://www.princeton.edu/~mae412/HANDOUTS/Datasheets/2114.pdf
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27 thoughts on “Eevblog #680 – mailbag”
  1. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Steven yamada says:

    WayBack Wednesday!!!

  2. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Wasting My Potential says:

    I know this is an old video, but take off those post its… The adhesive and paper are acidic and will ruin the magazine…

  3. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Alex Trofimov says:

    I know it's a pretty old video, but anyway. I'd love to read "Engineer is a loner…" and "Engineers and society".

  4. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Ramin Rajabi Oskouei says:

    Bigger knife for next episode please 😀

  5. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Bigrignohio says:

    Looks like you need a fiberscope to see in tight areas like that dump truck module. As if you really need an excuse to buy a new toy . . . er, tool.

  6. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Jasper Janssen says:

    FYI, it's pronounced roughly as "een-suh" from "Snake" 🙂

  7. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Martin D A says:

    Did you ask us to ''spot the mail'' on mailbag Monday?

  8. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars quadruple_negative says:

    There was an article in the '74 magazine about BBC experimenting with Digital TV and another on Plasma TVs, maybe…

  9. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars tcpnetworks says:

    Alberto Socolovsky died in 2013..  

  10. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Annabella Williams says:

    Radio Shack employees don't even know what a soldering iron is now and days and would rather sell you a cell phone or overpriced cables.

  11. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars TrainMasterMan says:

    Yea thumbs up for Model Railroad :)!!  Way back Wednesday sound good, always informational to watch your videos.

  12. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars James Hagerman says:

    Oh man! You missed covering the ad on the left hand page of the magazine that read "Don't buy a surprise package."

    FTDI much?!

  13. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Razor2048 says:

    Is it possible to better focus the the RF coming out of the microwave magnetron in order to improve the range? e.g., what if you wanted to make a longer range invisible fly swatter?

  14. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Das Grinch says:

    Yeah, Radio Shack is pretty much dead, they sell overpriced routers, cell phones, and some electronic appliances.  Most of them don't even have a component area anymore, I went into one last year, couldn't get a resistor or an LED, but they did have plenty of 40 dollar hdmi -> dvi adapters. 

  15. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Hossam Moghrabi says:

    someone shoot you? here comes my Final Flash!

  16. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars GGLRB says:

    THE NIFE =-P

  17. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars katelikesrectangles says:

    Hello! How do I contact the first guy, about getting one of those PCB holders? Dave didn't give any contact details…

  18. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars pratherat says:

    Radio Shack is hugely into mobile phones, and, yes, batteries. But they still have a hobbyist section that's good for the occasional "I forgot to order that."

  19. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Justin 3 says:

    Please do the wayback Wednesday segment. Come to think of it one of the two radio shacks in my city have closed down. So sad I'll have to order from China, nothing against them but either you pay a bunch for shipping or it takes 4 to 6 weeks.

  20. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars chucknorris687 says:

    A guy I went to college with a few years back, who was in his early 40's told me they use to use catalogs to buy everything.  He told me back in the early 90's they could order pc cases and motherboards from there. Basically he used those to build one of his first computers that had a 486 and then up until a few years ago tigerdirect would still send catalogs. Dell was another one but they Dell didn't sell parts they sold complete systems as you may know. In general though the quality customs parts have gone down largely due to the fact that marketing teams will spend more time on Ad's then the products them selves because manufacturing has changed.

  21. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Daniel says:

    …Now this is a Knife….

  22. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Tom Wilkinson says:

    You are getting grumpy in your old age Dave.

  23. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Tech Guy Charlie says:

    The smell of old books 🙂 love em

  24. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Scott Thomas says:

    MOS of Norristown PA. 1974 is probably before Chuck Peddle and company arrived to create the 6502 and certainly before Jack Tramiel of Commodore bought them to go head-to-head with TI.

  25. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars douro20 says:

    I do quite a lot of desoldering…I wish I had a vise for that…

    I've heard the name Bob Sears before in relation to solid-state electronics, but I can't place him…

  26. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars douro20 says:

    That CNC is a Haas, and to tell you the truth, the older Haas machines with the monochrome CRT are much better.  As far as their machines are concerned, they make quite a decent lathe, but their milling machines are no good for hard milling.

  27. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Shane Van Ingen says:

    Time to dedicate a few episodes to going through old electronics magazines… Maybe call it, "Bedtime stories with Dave" 😀
    I can smell old magazines just watching this 

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