most beautiful electronics of all time
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Very nice! I have a few early desktop calculators, including this Panasonic JE-1001 from 1973 which has its original carrying case and, apart from some dim segments in the VFD tubes, seems to work perfectly:
Lavane
Lunatic Member
A scope and nixies. What's not to love.One of the, what, three stereo equip pieces with a nixie readout? Scope only adds, never subtracts.
SAE MK6 tuner.
PastorTube
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Doctorhugo
Los Angeles CA
Love this thread! I have add this (I sadly just sold it, miss it already)
Hak Foo
Active Member
If we're moving beyond audio kit, the original DEC PDP-8 is a classic of design-- one of the first computers to look like an individual consumer product rather than a room-filling suite of furniture or industrial rackmount gear. I think you could very successfully sell an enthusiast PC with the same aesthetic today... put the guts in the bottom and discs and water-cooling facilities in the glass cabinet.
Yea, the speakers become tertiary.
I have the control panel circuit board from a PDP-8m. Not nearly as pretty without the rest of it, of course...
-Adam
RunOutGroove
Addicted Member
I like the room and the speakers, but I would swap out the furniture for something else...
There’s furniture?
I looked for this radio for a long time, but have never actually seen one. Probably not too many made their way into the USA from Germany. It was designed for the marine market and is known as the "rainbow receiver" because of the colorful tuning dial - the Siemens 745 E310.
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mistermax
Super Member
Great thread, some gorgeous stuff here.
Question: When did it happen that tubes, which used to be inside cases, became the primary visual and aesthetic focus of audio gear? While much of it is beautiful, I tend to be sort of an old-fashioned form-follows-function kinda guy. Those showy tube amps strike me as a little silly.
I am very fond of 70's-early 80's Pioneer stuff, and that's basically my system. But I really love the look of the 60's Fisher receivers. This little 220 is the only one I have right now. Simple but elegant, imho.
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Question: When did it happen that tubes, which used to be inside cases, became the primary visual and aesthetic focus of audio gear? While much of it is beautiful, I tend to be sort of an old-fashioned form-follows-function kinda guy. Those showy tube amps strike me as a little silly.
I am very fond of 70's-early 80's Pioneer stuff, and that's basically my system. But I really love the look of the 60's Fisher receivers. This little 220 is the only one I have right now. Simple but elegant, imho.
Elegant, yes and timelessly so.
radioactive
tube gear fanatic
id alsoo like to getvone of those.
PastorTube
Well-Known Member
Speaking of calculators. This beast got me through engineering school. 
