On Tue, 15 Mar 2011, Skipweasel wrote:

In article . li,
says...
This is something a bit more specialist than a computer, but a Mr Robert
Trautman writes with news of literally rolling his own capacitors (down
the bottom):

http://www.electricstuff.co.uk/marxgen.htm

Or this bloke, who makes his own vacuum tubes...
http://highfields-arc.6te.net/constr.../info/f2fo.htm

Genuinely impressive. The soundtrack is suitably Gallic!

What's that electric welding sewing machine / punch and die hybrid thing
he's got?

tom

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