11-12-15 10:35 Holger Granholm wrote to Ed Vance about Re: BRAGGART!!!   
   Howdy! Holger,   
      
    HG> @MSGID: <56466DCA.14575.windowsa@capcity2.synchro.net>   
    HG> In a message on Thursday 11-09-15 Ed Vance said to Mike Luther:   
      
    HG> GM Ed,   
      
    ML> I still have a pile of 8" floppies, drives, a few computers that use   
    ML> them and so on!   
      
    EV> BRAGGART!!!!!!!!      
      
    HG> I'm happy that somebody keeps up a museum of old gear. I would also   
    HG> like to know somebody here on the islands that would take care of my   
    HG> ZX-81, Triumph Adler CP/M and 486DX2/80MHz machines.   
      
   I can say a big Me Too! when it comes to people having very old electronic   
   equipment.   
      
   The Early Computers and/or Amateur Radio gear wasn't being used by many people   
   when I became interested in those things.   
      
   But I have met people who still had (or still used) the early State-Of-The-Art   
   Radio equipment, and I appreciated it when they let me see their collection.   
      
    HG> I have myself sent my original IBM 8086 and Epson PCAX/286 to the scrap   
    HG> heap before recognizing their historic value.   
      
   Did Your IBM 8086 have a 10 Megabyte Hard Drive?   
   The XT Clone I used at work had a 10 MB HDD in it.   
      
    HG> However, my original SSB exciter, that was the first SSB transmitter in   
    HG> Finland, has been taken care of as a museum piece.   
      
   I sold the Hallicrafters S-38e Receiver at a Hamfest, and I gave my Knight-Kit   
   VFO to another Ham, who gave it to another Ham Friend who asked for it.   
   I got rid of some other Ham gear but I still have some of the older Ham Radio   
   equipment that I owned but doubt if it has any "historic value".   
      
   I know the Radio and Computer gear I have isn't real ancient stuff, I started   
   being interested in Shortwave/Ham Radio in the late 1950's and got my first   
   computer in the early 1980's, so it ain't old stuff, just old to Me.   
      
   You were probably using Amateur Radios and Computers 5 to 10 years (at least)   
   before I got interested in either of those things.   
      
    HG> OTOH, the SSB transmitter and receivers that I built for our (OH0/OH2OJ   
    HG> and OH0/OH2QH, the XYL) DX expedition, to the Aland Islands in 1986, I   
    HG> have sold to somebody that has disappeared from my sight.   
      
   Were You and the XYL so impressed with the Aland Islands that You moved the   
   QTH there from Finland? I'm guessing Your OH2 Calls were in Finland.   
      
    HG> A transmitter I built in 1994 should still be in custody (I hope) at   
    HG> the XYL of OH0NE, SK.   
      
   Was that TX the one with a 4-65A Final Amplifier?   
   I loved the specs for that tube, but never had one in the Shack.   
      
   I haven't built any Home Brew Transmitters or Receivers, I've just built   
   Kits and small accessories from magazine articles.   
      
   73   
      
      
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