>Maybe they have been stored near a magnetic field. Quite possibly - the room's like a radio museum. Until last week it included a transformer/oscillating reed rectifier which my grandfather used to charge neighbours' accumulators (for a few pennies) for their radios when he had the only mains supply in their street in 1930s Sheffield. It's gone to a local tech.museum now.
>It is always sensible to work of backup cartridges though - it sounds like he was using the master cartridges. Quill is a copy; the others may be originals - they have "ABACUS" etc typed on little labels on the ends of the cartridges. Alan T ----- Original Message ----- From: Tony Firshman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2003 6:43 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Bad line 8
