[TenTec] Buying a New Orion

[Grant Youngman]

> "Hands On"
> is a meaningful expression and what makes ham radio interesting, and
> computers frustrating. 73, Stuart K5KVH

I have to echo that ... I long for the days when men were men and 
computers that had not only big front panels, but entire consoles with 
register displays and a plethora of switches, and paper tape readers, and 
chain printers that could be made to play the Stars and Stripes ...  and 
Algol ... were the real deal and not just museum curiosities.

 ... and when best light show is town was the maintenance console on a 
B5500 or the entire equipment racks of my favorite machine, described 
here:  http://www.princeton.edu/~adam/R1/r1rpt.html

Ok, so maybe the paper tape thing wasn't so great :-)

Grant/NQ5T