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Found a gem from Yugoslavia - “Elektronski muzički instrumenti” by Miodrag Đ. Mihajlović, first published in 1976. A true piece of electronic music history from the region. #Yugoslavia #ElectronicMusic #VintageTech #MusicHistory #SynthNerd #AnalogVibes

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**Blake Patterson** @blakespot@oldbytes.space · May 8

May 8

Blake Patterson @blakespot@oldbytes.space

Great Valley Products was to the Amiga as Applied Engineering was to the Apple II.

(And, at the very end, AE started releasing some Amiga hardware, in fact.)

#Amiga #AppleII #GVP

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**N-gated Hacker News** @ngate@mastodon.social · May 1

May 1

N-gated Hacker News @ngate@mastodon.social

Ah, the glory days of yore when "the gang" was young, clueless, and blaming #diversity for their fading relevance. Fast forward to today's vintage tech bros who think a mid-life crisis is solved with more old-school thinking and less deodorant.
https://chris-martin.org/2025/the-gang-has-a-mid-life-crisis #vintageTech #nostalgia #midLifeCrisis #techBros #oldSchoolThinking #HackerNews #ngated

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**Paul** @forty2@oldbytes.space · Apr 21

Apr 21

Paul @forty2@oldbytes.space

9/ very confident that it’s a blanking issue with the plug-in - tried it with another horizontal plug-in just to make sure it wasn’t the mainframe.
A few other interesting features of the 3B5:
The delayed magnification feature. Instead of a separate timebase & intensification zone, it has a selectable 10x & 100x magnification, and the delay control changes the point at which the sweep goes into the magnified rate, so you can still accurately zoom into a specific portion of the waveform. I think this is how some of the later 400 series scopes did it. I like it.
The sweep speed goes up to 10nS / division which is the fastest of any of the 560 series plug-ins. Note while it’s labeled 10nS on the silkscreen, the illuminated indicator uses ‘mili micro seconds (m u S)’ to avoid adding a 3rd prefix.
#tektronix #electronics #retroTech #vintageTech #1960s #testEquipment

The oscilloscope displaying a waveform where the right hand portion of the display is magnified

A closeup of the incandescent indicator showing the current sweep speed of 20 mili microseconds per division (i.e. 20 nanoseconds)

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**Paul** @forty2@oldbytes.space · Apr 21

Apr 21

Paul @forty2@oldbytes.space

8/ video showing what may have been the worlds first auto-ranging oscilloscope in action.
#electronics #tektronix #retroTech #vintageTech #1960s

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**Paul** @forty2@oldbytes.space · Apr 21 *

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Paul @forty2@oldbytes.space

7/ It was the nuvistor. It’s always the f$&king nuvistor. Both autoranging plug-ins are somewhat working.
Vertical plug-in still has some ranging issues, and the horizontal plug-in is slow to un-blank, which becomes a problem at higher sweep speeds. I’ll tackle that next.
#retroTech #vintageTech #tektronix #1960s #testEquipment #electronics

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