Definately keep the calculator intact. It should be possible to restore it to it's former glory.
$5? Wow! Nigel. ----- Original Message ----- From: Daniel McDonald To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, April 11, 2011 6:33 PM Subject: [neonixie-l] Monroe Calculator as Source of Nixies? I have a Monroe 620 Calculator that I bought a long time ago, intending at the time to use its Nixie tubes for some other project, and I am now questioning the wisdom of that train of thought. It's got 13 tubes in it, I think all of them work. According to Rick Bensene, they are "JPC B-5755's (clones of Burroughs parts of the same part number)". But now it has some sentimental value to me as a unit which might outweigh the value to me of the individual tubes. Is there any collected wisdom about the scrapping out of non-prime systems for their tubes? I've got a moderately-sized stash of ZM1000's out of things with no sentimental value that will keep me going for a little while, but those 13 additional tubes still have some possibilities. For reference, here is a link to Rick Bensene's Monroe 620 info: http://oldcalculatormuseum.com/monroe620.html What is good/sentimental about my particular unit? - I bought it from Ed at The Black Hole on a very memorable visit, and that experience (sadly) can never be repeated. - It has the way-cool-provenance property sticker of "LASL-AEC" on it What is not so good about this unit? - It doesn't work reliably. This could probably be fixed. - It's missing the decimal place knob. - Some of the top vent holes have been bashed and a few of the plastic strips are broken. - Ed wrote "$5" on the top of it with black magic marker Thanks for any advice or wisdom, Dan M. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/neonixie-l?hl=en-GB. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/neonixie-l?hl=en-GB.
