A Tour of Apex Electronics

[Don McKenzie]

And if you don't follow Dave Jones EEVblog, have a look at the first video at:
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or

and check out the comments on utube

Dave dropped by Apex Electronics in Sun Valley just outside LA, the biggest and oldest surplus electronics store in
California (and probably the US?) . Come on a tour through the Aladdin cave of surplus electronics and hardware. It’s
actually pretty sad to see all this old technology just lying on the scrap heap :-(

Cheers Don...

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[David L. Jones]

And if you don't follow Dave Jones EEVblog, have a look at the first
video at: http://www.eevblog.com/
or

and check out the comments on utube

Dave dropped by Apex Electronics in Sun Valley just outside LA, the
biggest and oldest surplus electronics store in California (and
probably the US?) . Come on a tour through the Aladdin cave of
surplus electronics and hardware. It’s actually pretty sad to see all
this old technology just lying on the scrap heap :-(
Cheers Don...

Thanks Don
Was just about the post this.
Cross posted to sci.electronics.design.

Dave.

 

[Fred Abse]

ampling scopes still use plugins.

http://cp.home.agilent.com/upload/cmc_upload/86100D_86105D_83496B_LargerView.jpg

We still use our old Tektronix (sp!) scopes once in a while,
especially when a special-purpose plugin does something we need, like
10 uV/cm or 120 dB CMRR or 1000:1 vertical zoom.

Sounds like a 7A13, my favorite (apart from the relays)

GR just did dumb stuff, like clumsy separate power supplies.

What really killed cool stuff like the TM500 series was the price.

I still have a 6-holer on my bench.

 

[Don McKenzie]

On a sunny day (Mon, 1 Nov 2010 08:11:09 +1100) it happened "David L. Jones"


You never heard of Ray Conniff?

must admit, I nearly fell out of my chair when Dave said that. My wife would be mortified.

Cheers Don...

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[Fred Abse]

The plugins for the old TUBE scopes could be hot-switched.

That's what I got told when I tore a strip off a tech, when he cost us a
nearly-unobtanium IC by hot plugging an amplifier in a 7904.

 

[keithr]

And if you don't follow Dave Jones EEVblog, have a look at the first
video at:
http://www.eevblog.com/
or

and check out the comments on utube

Dave dropped by Apex Electronics in Sun Valley just outside LA, the
biggest and oldest surplus electronics store in California (and probably
the US?) . Come on a tour through the Aladdin cave of surplus
electronics and hardware. It’s actually pretty sad to see all this old
technology just lying on the scrap heap :-(

Cheers Don...

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Thats my kind of store! I'd have probably come away with more useless
old junk than I could fit into my baggage allowance.

I went to the MIT swap meet in Cambridge Mass last July, but it was
disappointing. Some interesting stuff but it was largely a trash and
treasure market (with the accent on the trash) for ageing hippies.

 

[Fred Abse]

BUT..a 7904 is (mostly) solem-state; the tech plainly did not know the
equipment and needed to be Eddy-Kated.

He sure got Eddy-Kated.

Giving excuses when apology and contrition are called for doesn't work
with me.

 

[barathbushan]

i have seen the video , apex electronics is truly an electronic's engineer's paradise , i would like to than EEVblog for showing me such a great place

 

[barathbushan]

i would also like to know if there is any other place like apex electronics , except the one at silicon valley , california !!