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| Vintage Technology Highlights | Welcome to Emil's Vintage Technology Site - information on late 20th Century Technology | ||||||||||
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Early desktop calculators that are mains-only powered are the "boat-anchors" for calculator collectors. Incredibly expensive in their time and crammed with ICs and transistors it's a wonder that they still work but they usually do. |
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Distributing Vintage Technology in the 50s wasn't that different from today, though it was more common to see smaller vans/lorries. Take a look at how these items were sent around the country - and the adverts on the sides extolling the virtues of their wares. |
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Radio voltmeters - worry me as they look deadly! |
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See a large collection of vintage valve ephemera. Includes data booklets, catalogues, pictures of factories and valve boxes. Often thrown away when the next edition came out, these are fleeting artefacts of their day. |
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An in-depth study of Ultra Electric Ltd from the 1920s to 1960s. Accompanied by plenty of adverts, product listings, brochures and catalogues. |
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All images and most text is © Emil J. Dudek 2002-10, though I'm a strong believer in copy-left. Ebay sellers can use the text... continued. |
