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Particularly if it has 1960s or 1970s electronics stuff, ie not the numerous
Wireless museums or the more general
the Science Museum London or its Wroughton offshoot
Manchester Industry and Technology
Bletchley Park
or Peterborough Museum of Technology
 
In article <ju0meg$svb$1@dont-email.me>, N_Cook <diverse@tcp.co.uk> wrote:

Particularly if it has 1960s or 1970s electronics stuff, ie not the numerous
Wireless museums or the more general
the Science Museum London or its Wroughton offshoot
Manchester Industry and Technology
Bletchley Park
or Peterborough Museum of Technology
If you want to see some old, but still quite fascinating technology,
try

http://www.kbsm.org/

I visited there in 2008, on a friend's recommendation, and quite
enjoyed it.

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N_Cook <diverse@tcp.co.uk> wrote:

Particularly if it has 1960s or 1970s electronics stuff, ie not the numerous
Wireless museums or the more general
the Science Museum London or its Wroughton offshoot
Manchester Industry and Technology
Bletchley Park
or Peterborough Museum of Technology
Sounds as though you would enjoy a visit to my house.


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In article <ju0meg$svb$1@dont-email.me>, N_Cook <diverse@tcp.co.uk> wrote:

Particularly if it has 1960s or 1970s electronics stuff, ie not the
numerous
Wireless museums or the more general
the Science Museum London or its Wroughton offshoot
Manchester Industry and Technology
Bletchley Park
or Peterborough Museum of Technology

If you want to see some old, but still quite fascinating technology,
try

http://www.kbsm.org/

I visited there in 2008, on a friend's recommendation, and quite
enjoyed it.

--
Dave Platt <dplatt@radagast.org> AE6EO
Friends of Jade Warrior home page: http://www.radagast.org/jade-warrior
I do _not_ wish to receive unsolicited commercial email, and I will
boycott any company which has the gall to send me such ads!

It looks as this place has closed, I never got to it because I was only ever
in the area at weekends
http://www.lymington.org/placestovisit/electricity.html
only dead URLs or irrelevant redirects these days it would seem
 
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N_Cook <diverse@tcp.co.uk> wrote:

Particularly if it has 1960s or 1970s electronics stuff, ie not the
numerous
Wireless museums or the more general
the Science Museum London or its Wroughton offshoot
Manchester Industry and Technology
Bletchley Park
or Peterborough Museum of Technology

Sounds as though you would enjoy a visit to my house.


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~ Adrian Tuddenham ~
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www.poppyrecords.co.uk

Exactly, myself and techie friend visited a rural technology museum on
Sunday and wondered whether there was anywhere, more structured versions of
each of our gargen sheds.
Nixi tube Marconi frequency counters, a laser video disc, odd bits of
core-store, a box of wire-wrap tools, bug-eaten ancient hobbiest magazines
early VCR machines etc etc
 
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In article <ju0meg$svb$1@dont-email.me>, N_Cook <diverse@tcp.co.uk
wrote:

Particularly if it has 1960s or 1970s electronics stuff, ie not the
numerous
Wireless museums or the more general
the Science Museum London or its Wroughton offshoot
Manchester Industry and Technology
Bletchley Park
or Peterborough Museum of Technology

If you want to see some old, but still quite fascinating technology,
try

http://www.kbsm.org/

I visited there in 2008, on a friend's recommendation, and quite
enjoyed it.

--
Dave Platt <dplatt@radagast.org> AE6EO
Friends of Jade Warrior home page: http://www.radagast.org/jade-warrior
I do _not_ wish to receive unsolicited commercial email, and I will
boycott any company which has the gall to send me such ads!


It looks as this place has closed, I never got to it because I was only
ever
in the area at weekends
http://www.lymington.org/placestovisit/electricity.html
only dead URLs or irrelevant redirects these days it would seem

Looks as though it is only for spotty kids now, not sad old gits
http://www.southern-electric.co.uk/AboutUs/EducationalResources/EducationalV
isits/
 
N_Cook <diverse@tcp.co.uk> wrote:

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N_Cook <diverse@tcp.co.uk> wrote:

Particularly if it has 1960s or 1970s electronics stuff, ie not the
numerous
Wireless museums or the more general
the Science Museum London or its Wroughton offshoot
Manchester Industry and Technology
Bletchley Park
or Peterborough Museum of Technology

Sounds as though you would enjoy a visit to my house.


--
~ Adrian Tuddenham ~
(Remove the ".invalid"s and add ".co.uk" to reply)
www.poppyrecords.co.uk


Exactly, myself and techie friend visited a rural technology museum on
Sunday and wondered whether there was anywhere, more structured versions of
each of our gargen sheds.
Nixi tube Marconi frequency counters, a laser video disc, odd bits of
core-store, a box of wire-wrap tools, bug-eaten ancient hobbiest magazines
early VCR machines etc etc
I've got a collection of Wireless Worlds going back to the late 1940s,
does that count?

If you are ever in the Minehead area, the radio museum at Washford is
worth a visit - mainly ex-BBC equipment and domestic receivers.


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www.poppyrecords.co.uk
 
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N_Cook <diverse@tcp.co.uk> wrote:

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N_Cook <diverse@tcp.co.uk> wrote:

Particularly if it has 1960s or 1970s electronics stuff, ie not the
numerous
Wireless museums or the more general
the Science Museum London or its Wroughton offshoot
Manchester Industry and Technology
Bletchley Park
or Peterborough Museum of Technology

Sounds as though you would enjoy a visit to my house.


--
~ Adrian Tuddenham ~
(Remove the ".invalid"s and add ".co.uk" to reply)
www.poppyrecords.co.uk


Exactly, myself and techie friend visited a rural technology museum on
Sunday and wondered whether there was anywhere, more structured
versions of
each of our gargen sheds.
Nixi tube Marconi frequency counters, a laser video disc, odd bits of
core-store, a box of wire-wrap tools, bug-eaten ancient hobbiest
magazines
early VCR machines etc etc

I've got a collection of Wireless Worlds going back to the late 1940s,
does that count?

If you are ever in the Minehead area, the radio museum at Washford is
worth a visit - mainly ex-BBC equipment and domestic receivers.


--
~ Adrian Tuddenham ~
(Remove the ".invalid"s and add ".co.uk" to reply)
www.poppyrecords.co.uk

Assuming they're still about, there are 3 small wirelss viewable collections
near me, Poole, Chandlers Ford and Arreton IOW, but not a museum of the
later stuff it would seem
 

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