Tasty » Adam Sampson's retrotech bookmarks

RD&CE edit / delete

"This page gives access to a short description of nearly every "coded and registered" design produced by the BBC between 1957 and 1991 (over 7000 !)."

to audio bbc broadcast electronics radio retrotech tv vtr ... on 07 July

HH3 - most accurate pendulum clock on the planet edit / delete

Involves a Chain Controlled Oscillator.

to clock oscillator pll retrotech time ... on 06 July

Beefchicken Industries edit / delete

Collecting Linotype machines requires a special kind of dedication (and a lot of space). Very impressive, though!

to linotype mechanica printing retrotech telephone typesetting ... on 07 April 2021

Mikey's Old Technology Page edit / delete

TV and radio collection. Notable for the large collection of early(ish) UK colour TVs, most in working order and showing good pictures.

to colour electronics radio retrotech tv ... on 25 March 2021

Jeffrey Borinsky edit / delete

Designer of the Aurora standards converter.

to 405-line retrotech standards-conversion tv video ... on 25 March 2021

Dr. Hugo Holden's Electronics page edit / delete

"This website is dedicated to interesting and unusual electronics engineering projects in the field of radio receivers, transmitters, television and general electronics." Undersells itself quite a bit! There are some very detailed and well-written articles here about radio and TV restoration, and a few on test equiment and the Sol-20 computer.

to electronics radio retrocomputing retrotech sol-20 test-equipment tv ... on 25 March 2021

Camera Stuff edit / delete

Repairing, maintaining and modifying vintage cameras. This has lots of great hand-drawn illustrations - it's very "How To Keep Your Volkswagen Alive".

to cameras drawing lens photography repair retrotech ... on 20 March 2021

Maitani Olympus edit / delete

"Yoshihisa Maitani joined Olympus Optical Co. Ltd. in 1956. He developed the legendary Pen, OM and XA cameras." A fan site.

to cameras olympus rangefinder retrotech ... on 20 March 2021

The Pentacon Six System edit / delete

"The Pentacon Six is a medium format Single Lens Reflex (SLR) camera developed in Germany in the 1950s and manufactured until the early 1990s." Huge amount of detail about one particular camera system.

to cameras lens medium-format photography retrotech ... on 20 March 2021

FED/Zorki edit / delete

"This is a site for FED and Zorki , Soviet copies of the Leica II camera."

to cameras photography retrotech zorki ... on 20 March 2021