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	W6CAW Swan Page Category: Friends Former Cubic employee shares some of his experiences and Swan products....  READ MORE	UncleBrad 08/14/2019	Friends
	History of Windows OS in Screenshots Category: Technology Windows -- originally codenamed Interface Manager -- was announced by Bill Gates in 1983, but didn't ship until 20 November 1985. Its first incarnation was as a front end for Microsoft's command-line DOS, or Disk Operating System.Windows 1.0 could only support tiled windows, but had desktop features such as the MS-DOS Executive file manager, Calendar, Cardfile, Notepad, Terminal, Calculato...  READ MORE	UncleBrad 07/03/2019	Technology
	Kentucky Phone Net Category: Friends I check into the Kentucky Phone Net whenever I can.  This is the best bunch of ladies and gentlemen on the air, and have a lot of good friends down there.  The KY Phone Net has been around a long time - 1949, in fact - precisely because these are good folks with a gracious, helpful attitude.  ...  READ MORE	UncleBrad 06/29/2019	Friends
	Dan's Small Parts Category: Resources Dan's Small Parts has been around for years.  He has positively the WORST web site on the planet, but some of the best process on hard-to-get components (including inductors, NPO capacitors, mylar capacitors, older ICs and transistors)  meters and much more.  All the cool guys can repair radios and TVs, and this is certainly a go-to site....  READ MORE	UncleBrad 06/23/2019	Resources
	NH Honors BASIC Language Category: Technology New Hampshire has installed what appears to be the first historical highway marker honoring computer programming, according to the Concord Monitor. The new sign honors BASIC, Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, a programming language that was invented at Dartmouth College in 1964.The sign itself is located on New Hampshire Route 120 — a short distance away from ...  READ MORE	UncleBrad 06/17/2019	Technology
	ENIAC Operating Manual Category: Resources A look at the ENIAC Operating Manual, published 75 years ago this month, reveals just how difficult it was to program the world's first electronic general-purpose computer and how frustrating it must have been for its programmers....These days as soon as any piece of electronic equipment starts to malfunction there's the temptation not to fix it but to replace it - the replacement will pro...  READ MORE	UncleBrad 06/10/2019	Resources
	America's Rural Radio Stations Are Vanishing Category: Old Time Radio (OTR) Lucke pulls on a Steeler’s jacket and a baseball cap over brown hair that falls halfway down his back, and leads me across the five-acre yard. Out here, 90 miles east of Tucson, the desert is a long sweep of brush the color of beach sand. Lucke seems to slip through the rainy day like a ghost.The radio station, whose call letters are KHIL, has long been the daily soundtrack for this frontier...  READ MORE	UncleBrad 06/08/2019	Old Time Radio (OTR)
	‘Robots’ Are Not 'Coming for Your Job'—Management Is Category: Technology As my old TV repair mentor, Charlie Percifield, used to observe: "The smeller's the feller."Listen: ‘Robots’ are not coming for your jobs. I hope we can be very clear here—at this particular point in time, ‘robots’ are not sentient agents capable of seeking out and applying for your job and then landing the gig on its comparatively superior merits. &lsqu...  READ MORE	UncleBrad 06/04/2019	Technology
	Radio Locator Category: Resources Welcome to Radio-Locator.com, the most trusted radio station search engine on the Internet. We have links to over 15,300 radio stations' web pages and over 11,000 stations' audio streams from radio stations in the U.S. and around the world.Just enter your zip code, and be amazed at what you can listen to!...  READ MORE	UncleBrad 05/20/2019	Resources
	WB4IUY's Cushcraft Tribander Restoration Notes Category: Repair & Restoration David has a lot of useful information for Cushcraft tribander owners....  READ MORE	UncleBrad 05/14/2019	Repair & Restoration