Monthly Archives: January 2017

A New Piece of Equipment Joined the Family!

Recently, on Ebay I bought a “new” oscilloscope. If you are electronically inclined, you might have noticed that in the background of my website there is an oscilloscope (it is a Tektronix Type 503 vintage scope), so why would I need another one? This one is special. Some people refer to it as a “Vectorscope”. It is basically an oscilloscope where you can input a horizontal and vertical input. Doing this can turn it into a very basic TV. There is some special music made by talented individuals that when you play it back through an oscilloscope it will make a “video” on the screen of the scope. For this to work you need a oscilloscope that has both a horizontal and vertical input. My original oscilloscope can not do that. I have not gotten the scope in the mail yet, but it is coming and will be here soon.

P.S. If you want to check out some oscilloscope music, go to Jerobeam Fenderson’s Youtube channel. He is the most popular oscilloscope music creator. Link: https://www.youtube.com/user/jerobeamfenderson1

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Oscilloscope music played through an oscilloscope emulator on my PC

 

 

 

The Tape Library Salvage Score!

A while ago I talked about a broken tape library I was going to salvage. In this post I will cover everything I got.

  • A very powerful ATX power supply.
  • Many fans.
  • A touch screen display.
  • 2 tape drives LTO4 and LTO3 (the LTO3 drive is bad).
  • A cleaning tape (it was stuck in the LTO3 drive).
  • The tape library assembly (stepper motors, lasers, gears, solenoids, and much more!)