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January 13, 2000
Please welcome Diversified
Engineering as our latest Banner
Advertiser. They offer a variety of superb PIC related development
and educational boards.
January 10, 2000
Expanded the "mauve" search engine listings on the home
page.
Added a web discovery of the week feature.
This is usually some
exciting new site I have found that eventually will get linked.
January 8, 2000
Here's a secret way to find at least some of the DRMO to Levy-Latham
inventory transfers: Click on the DRMS4 button on my Guru's
Lair home
page. Sort on bid number then date. Set output format to **NOT** print
the site name. (!) This seems handy for finding otherwise unavailable
acquisition costs. The transfers are usually sale 99005.
December 24, 1999
Some Electrochemistry Books have been added to our Book Access links.
December 19, 1999
Just added some Thermoelectric
Power Generators and highly collectible
Circular
Slide Rules to our Live
Auction page.
December 12, 1999
Oops. The Contactless Charger components we covered in Muse
142 were
really TDK parts, rather than Toko. More details at www.component.tdk.com.
Panasonic also has a PHS charger system at
www.panasonic.com.
December 2, 1999
Latest Tech Musings
#145 is on four point Bezier curve fitting, PIC
Digimatic
interfaces, Magnetorheology demos, and bunches of other goodies. The
print version of this column supposedly is now in Poptronix
magazine.
November 28, 1999
Added a list of Carbon
Nanotube reference books. Tested, upgraded, and
improved the Hydrogen Resources
page.
November 26, 1999
Updated, verified, and improved the Pseudoscience Links library page.
November 23, 1999
Updated and expanded our Web
Resources library page. Added The
Nudist on the Late Shift to our Book
Access page. Here at Synergetics,
we don't usually draw all that much a distinction between our casual
dress days and the clothing optional ones.
November 22, 1999
Verified and updated our PIC Book List and our Pic a Peck of Pics page.
November 21, 1999
Just got a whole load of super high speed, super high volume letter
opening
machine consoles. These include VacTrac's from Mail Ex and Opex model
100's and 150's. Please email me if
you have any interest in these.
November 18, 1999
Rearranged the Home Page DRMO
buttons. DRMS1 is the catalog. DRMS2
is the bidding page. DRMS3 gives previous bid results, while DRMS4 is their
master search engine. Which gave us room for this week's Helium
Hilarity.
November 15, 1999
Please welcome Zabros Robotics
as our newest Banner Advertiser.
They
offer custom personal attention to lots of interesting robotic solutions.
November 9, 1999
Another two million of your wasted tax dollars was just dumped in my front yard.
Before I strip them for parts to try and get at least some of my
shipping charges back,
please let me know if you have any interest in $23,000.00 4x5 aerial camera
bodies.
These include an incredibly superb focal plane shutter mechanism with lots
of ultra
premium dc governor motors (small quarter hp intermittent!), clutches,
brakes, crt's,
and other mind bending robotic parts.
A lens cone and a film cassette have to be added to make a full KS
87/B camera.
Clean used, but may need a shutter repair. Please email
me for further details.
November 5, 1999
Just got some really strange 48 (yup - fourty EIGHT) pin premium
PLCC
Textool burnin sockets. Also 24 pin SOJ's. Please let
me know who would use
these for what. Note that 44 pins is the norm. These apparently see use
with
CCD sensor chips and in a few other oddball places.
October 30, 1999
Started an overhaul and upgrade of our 1000 PIC Links page.
October 29, 1999
Began an upgrade and update on the Ask
the Guru library page.
25 classic archived columns have been added. More will follow
as Banner Advertisers permit.
October 28, 1999
Added a complete archive
of all the early Hardware Hacker
files. Many
of these have not yet been colorized, updated, or hot linked. As with all
of our other files, linking is welcome but reposting is expressly forbidden.
October 24, 1999
I've now added a favicon.ico
file to the website for any of you who have
been needing this for your IE favorites or bookmarks. More on creating
your
own icons (favorite or other) will shortly appear in MUSE144.PDF.
October 22, 1999
Added some recommended Thermometry books to our Book Access pages.
October 19, 1999
Popular Electronics and Electronics Now have merged into Poptronix.
My
Tech Musings columns will
continue in Poptronix as well as in ezine format.
My Blatant Opportunist
and Resouce Bin columns
are now exclusively in ezine
format. I have recently greatly expanded the available links and have added
new photo technology, so the latest stuff should be even better than ever.
October 15, 1999
Got a bunch of superb Electric
Brakes useful for everything from
robotics to ORV to ag stuff.
October 12, 1999
Added some ultrasonic
NDT testers to our new Scientific
Bargains page.
And Wavetek 145 Function
Generators to the Test
Equipment page.
October 9, 1999
Added a new Sensors
Bargain Page. Split out the laboratory, medical,
and machine shop items onto their own Laboratory
Bargain Page.
October 5, 1999
Bragging rights department: That photo of the Apple I computer in
Wired magazine for November 1999 page 298 has MY keyboard in it.
Did I ever tell you about the time I made the Rolling Stone centerfold?
October 2, 1999
Added some Spectroscopy Books to our Book Access Page.
October 1, 1999
Just got a pair of surplus super premium Prichard luminescence
photometers from the feds. email me
if you have any interest in
these superb but pricey gems.
September 30, 1999
Added a Search Engine Group selector to the home page.
September 27, 1999
The feds have newly added Local Bid Results to their surplus
pages. Click on my DRMS5 then select
their Local Results.
September 15, 1999
Added some new PostScript
Utilities. BEZ4UTIL.PS
is the actual
code you'll need to draw a Bezier Curve through four points. It
is based on the Jim Fitzsimmons derivation in BEZ4PTS.PDF
September 12, 1999
Just picked up a $25,000.00 autocollimator from the feds. Otherwise
known as an extremely precise electronic level. I would rather sell it
in one piece instead of stripping it for parts. It is a Broomer AT/AC4700
mounted on a 3" dual micrometer az-el table. There is a LED source
and
a 20X 4728 prism CCD video telescope using a Panasonic WV-CD50. The
main scope has graticules and beam splitters. A Schaevitz LSOC 3 degree
inclinometer is on the side. A precision mini 2-axis stage adjusts the
camera position Please email me if
you want to save some big bucks.
September 11, 1999
We have an incredible online
auction now going on a Scitech MAP
X-ray fluorescence spectrum analyzer.
September 10, 1999
Added bunches of new links to the Guru's
Lair home page. These
are all the links that Bee and I personally use the most.
September 7, 1999
Updated and improved the Don Technical Links page.
September 2, 1999
Latest PostScript Utility
uses Gaussian Elimination
to solve
n=4 linear algebraic equations.
September 1, 1999
Latest Blatant Opportunist #59 is on Web Imaging Secrets.
August 30, 1999
Latest Tech Musings #142
is on contact-free battery
chargers,
Gage interfaces, Gauss-Jordan
elimination, and more.
August 28, 1999
Added some still video players and video floppy players to our
video bargain page.
August 26, 1999
A reminder that the Resouce
Bin is now a greatly improved ezine.
It no longer appears in whatever the name of that magazine was.
August 24, 1999
Added some linear bearings,
bunches of robotic bits &
pieces and
some buys in used chassis
punches to our bargain pages.
August 20, 1999
Added some Induction
Heating Books to our Book
Access Page.
New bargains include telephone
digital announcers and GagePort
machine tool interfaces. Plus lots of useful
shop tools.
August 15, 1999
Expanded the "Other
Stuff" bargain page. Added some outstanding
algebra tutorial videos (perfect for charter schools), drills, and drill
guides.
August 14, 1999
Took out all of the old bad links on the Acrobat
page and replaced them
with new ones.
August 12, 1999
Latest Resource Bin #92 ezine is on Exploring PostScript Possibilities.
August 5, 1999
Latest Tech Musings #141
is on Subpixel
resolution tricks, diode
rf switches and attenuators, a new hydrogen storage breakthrough,
antialiasing techniques and grayscaling secrets.
August 2, 1999
Latest Resource Bin #91 ezine is on Antenna Resources.
July 28, 1999
Got a whole load of premium and clean Magnetec 60M Kiosk/receipt/ticket
printers. RFE. These are six inch wide dot matrix style and include a power
paper shear and a Z80 class computer interface. Please let me know immediately
if you have an interest in these at $59 each. They appear fully functional.
Because
of their bulk, I'll be stripping them for parts very shortly.
I really hate to tear apart functional premium gear. It pains me deeply.
July 24, 1999
Just added some Ultrasonic
Books to our Book Access
page. The
listing is found in MUSE141.
Also just got another load of Apple
II
and Apple II+ computers,
so these are back in stock.
July 22, 1999
I've found a neighbor who has an incredible ability to get things
done
in the way of packing, crating, and shipment brokering at amazingly
reasonable costs. We are now able to offer optional shipping on our
heavier items. Particularly the Printed
Circuit Plate-thru Lab, 60 kilowatt
Load Bank, HP Draftmaster
II plodder, Apple IIe Storehouse
Closeout,
Napco 5300 Germ Warfare Kit,
and our superb Kinetron II
torture chambers.
July 21, 1999
By now, you should have noticed the spectacular "shadowless"
and
"distortionless" superdetailed product "photos" I'm
now starting to add
to all of our Bargain Pages.
Secrets of these techniques can be found in
IMAGIMAG.PDF and
in MUSE140.PDF.
We can now offer to do this quality web product photography for you
at a flat rate of $99 per image. Seminars and training on this exciting
new technique that offers HUNDREDS of times the resolution of a
digital camera are also avaiable. email
me for full details.
July 20, 1999
Latest Blatant Opportunist #53 includes some Thoughts on ezines.
July 17, 1999
Added photos of the Lab
Furnace and the Kinetron
II to the bargain pages.
The furnace is somewhat taller than shown in the image, My Scanner
Method
sure is an addictive way to create unbeatable web images.
July 13, 1999
A reminder that the free Adobe Acrobat
Reader is absolutely essential if you are
to visit my Guru's Lair web site. Netscape
Navigator is the recommended browser,
set to twelve point Times text with underlining off. Certain demos may
not work
properly when using other browsers. Other browsers also may unacceptably
trash
the intended appearance of the site.
July 7, 1999
Latest Resource Bin ezine is on GPS and Navigation.
July 2, 1999
Latest Tech Musings #140
is on low cost printed
circuit drills,
energy "laws" as theorems, water soluble swimsuits, PostScript
robotics, scanner "photo" secrets, and lots more.
June 29, 1999
Check out our new designer series of water soluble swimsuits.
June24, 1999
In response to a groundswill of public demand, we have added medieval
torture chambers to our product line. At an incredibly great price.
June 11, 1999
Just added some GPS Navigation and Radio Astronomy books to our
Book Access library page.
June 10, 1999
If you live anywhere near Portsmouth NH, please email me immediately
at don@tinaja.com I was just awarded
two military surplus microprocessor
controlled party dolls and need these gals picked up and forwarded. Your
tax dollars at work. For a reasonable fee, of course.
June 5, 1999
I've started adding product photos to our Bargain
Pages. My new
"scanner method"gives
such incredible results that I'm hesitant to add
grubby old digital camera photos. Click on the orange boxes for details.
June1, 1999
Latest Tech Musings #139
is on Hot Tub Economics,
the SETI-at-home
project, quality electronic photography secrets, and more.
May 30, 1999
Latest Blatant Opportunist #57 is on Imaginative Images.
May 22, 1999
Just made the amazing discovery that incredible quality color
"photographs" can be done using nothing but a scanner, lots
of work with Paint and a JPEG converter. Check out these
amazing examples...
http://www.tinaja.com/images/bargs/lumin1.jpg
http://www.tinaja.com/images/bargs/thermoc1.jpg
http://www.tinaja.com/images/bargs/noisegn1.jpg
http://www.tinaja.com/images/bargs/casio1.jpg
http://www.tinaja.com/images/bargs/punchdn1.jpg
More details on these items on our actual bargain pages.
May 19, 1999
Do any of you live near Medford Oregon? Please email
me if you can
help me take some local digital pictures. For a modest fee, of course.
May 16, 1999
May 14, 1999
Made some minor adjustments and added a few files to the Blatant
Opportunist library page.
Also discontinued our newslist link page
because robots who ignored the "keep out" signs were giving the
ISP fits. Most ISP's now provide useful newsgroup searching.
May 9, 1999
Latest Resouce Bin #89
is on Boatanchors.
Boatanchor enthuasiasts
can usually be spotted by their exceptionally long arms.
May 7, 1999
Added some new Live
Auction Links. This gives you instant access to any
and all of our current ebay offerings.
May 5, 1999
Latest Tech Musings #138
is on Miracle Antennas,
life as we don't know
it, fractals, PostScript referral and query readers, and more.
May 1, 1999
Latest Blatant Opportunist #56 is on Funding your Web Site.
April 28, 1999
Latest PostScript Utilities
are GRABREFS.PS
that extracts offsite
referrals and GRABSRCH.PS
that extracts search engine queries
from your ISP log files. Downoad these files, view them with a wp or
editor, modify them, then send to Acrobat Distiller or GhostScript.
April 24, 1999
Starting with column #89, the June 1999 and higher Resource
Bin
columns will be published in ezine format only. Banner
advertisers
and on-page sponsors
are welcomed to ease this transition. Hard
copy reprints and new CD ROM content will be available, and all
back columns should eventually get updated and uploaded.
There are a number of other unique editorial opportunities opening
up. Please Email me if you wish to
work with me on any of these.
April 20, 1999
Added some Antenna Books to our Book Access page.
April 16, 1999
Latest Tech Musings #137
is on EIS Spectroscopy,
current transducers and
sensors, spectrum analysis, radiation detectors, and gun cameras.
April 15, 1999
Revised and uploaded classic Blat #22 on Picojustification Techniques.
April 14, 1999
The print version of Nuts & Volts apparently chose to edit out
the key
purpose of my current column on used test equipment. Be sure to pick
up the "correct" version in our Resource
Bin library as RESBN87.PDF.
April 13, 1999
Be sure to check out Jameco's
latest Animated Banner.
To support the
Guru's Lair at no cost to yourself, please click through on at least one
banner each time you visit. And please buy ~all~ of your books through
our Book Access page.
April 12, 1999
Latest Blatant Opportunist #55 is on Eminently Effective Email Etiquette.
April 11, 1999
Upgraded, expanded, and improved the Incredible
Secret Money
Machine library page.
April 9, 1999
Be the first on your block to start World War III with this neat-o
germ
warfare kit. Also known as a Napco CO2 incubator model #5300.
Lots of similar great buys appear on our bargain pages.
April 8, 1999
Revised and uploaded classic Blat #27 on Emerging Opportunities III.
April 7, 1999
Upgraded and improved the Patent Avoidance library page.
April 6, 1999
Revised and uploaded classic Blat #31 on Helpline Hints.
April 4, 1999
Revised and uploaded classic Blat #22 on Patent Horror Stories.
April 2, 1999
Latest Resouce Bin #88 is on The Hydrogen Scene: It's a Gas.
Chemists like hydrogen so much that for years it has been number
one on their charts.
March 28, 1999
Upgraded, expanded,and improved our Hydrogen Library page.
March 22, 1999
Revised and uploaded classic Blat #28 on Catalog Musings.
March 20, 1999
Added some Edward Abbey books to the Tinaja
Questing page and to our
Book Access page. A reminder that buying ~all~ your books through the
Book Access page supports
the Guru's Lair at no cost to you.
March 19, 1999
Repaired the Acrobat Library page. Improved the Tinaja Questing page.
March 18, 1999
Please welcome Brad Mock's Technical
Works as our newest banner
advertiser.
Brad offers some superbly useful PIC Breadboarding
products.
March 17, 1999
Revised and uploaded classic Blat #32 on Engineering Ratholes.
March 16, 1999
March 15, 1999
Added some new titles to our Book Access page. Improved the Home Page.
March 14, 1999
Latest Blatant Opportunist #54 is on the Surplus and Auction Scene.
March 11, 1999
Latest Blatant Opportunist #53 is on Emerging Technical Opportunities VI.
March 8, 1999
Repaired and expanded the Tech Musings library page.
March 5, 1999
Latest Blatant Opportunist #52 is on PDF Links and Link Checking.
March 2, 1999
Latest Tech Musings #136
is on Tachometer Design,
"knotty neon" ligthing
rope, twinkle lights, and
PIC Breadboards.
March 2, 1999
Latest Resouce Bin #87 is on Exploring Used Test Equipment Options.
March `1, 1999
I was about to part out a premium piece of telephone gear that Maricopa
Community College obviously paid a zillion bucks for, and thought you might
like to bid on it as is.
Assembled by Harris, circa 1987. In very clean condition, nearly
like new.
Consists of a nice beige stand-alone open relay rack holding...
Three Ratelco 48 volt, 24 amp premium power supplies
One Reliance 48 volt to 80 volt DC-DC converter, 5 amp
One four-station heavy duty disconnect switch and failure alarm panel
One three diode Ratelco combiner/isolator panel
One master switching/control box
Two linked "DA" Digital Annunciator message recording/playback
boxes
Interconnect wiring harness plus heavy duty line cords.
Currently broken down into UPS-shippable pieces.
Submit your bids to don@tinaja.com
February 28, 1998
Also have four sets of two banks of nine each Siemon 86MI-50 50 pair
punchdown
blocks and snap holders. Plus support brackets, three "moose antler"
wire trays
and a few bridging clips. Clean used condition.
Before I offer it as bits and pieces, submit your bids to don@tinaja.com
February 19, 1999
A whole new load of surplus lab goodies is supposedly on the way.
Its
got everything from party dolls to germ warfare kits. Email
me if you
want to get in ahead of the hoarders on any of these gems...
Gilson FC-80K Micro fractionator
Precision Science 5300-120 C02 bacterialogical incubator
Applied Electrochem CD-3A C02 analyzer
Applied Electrochem S-3A O2 analyzer (2)
Paar DMA-46 Calculating digital densitometer
Extex (or maybe Xetek) 308 radiation detectors (4)
Applied Electrochem R-2 flow control
Datum 9550-827 video time inserter
Datum 9150-3006 time code generator
Fischer 348 Platelet mixer
Honeywell 605 flatbed recorder
Armstrong Anatomic Annie
February 18, 1999
Added even some more web link buttons to the Guru's
Lair home page.
Verified most others. Let me know if I missed any of your favorites.
February 13, 1999
Added another dozen web link buttons to the Guru's
Lair home page.
These are the sites that Bee and I personally use the most often.
February 7, 1999
Improved and expanded the Web Resources library shelf.
February 6, 1999
Added a new PostScript
utility that lets you extract
url's from Acrobat
PDF files. This one is highly useful for proofing and link checking.
February 5, 1999
Improved and upgraded the Pseudoscience Links page.
February 4, 1999
Added some links to books on Pseudoscience
Bashing. Also the great new
Crystal Fire book on
semiconductor history. Strangely, this latter one does
not mention transcapacitors or Roswell.
February 3, 1999
Latest Resource
Bin #86 is on Supraluminally
Dowsing for Brown's Gas
in Roswell. The insider secret is to be sure to use an overunity water
fueled
black helicopter.
January 28, 1999
Ultra wideband Impulse
Radio will be the next big thing in measurement
and communications. Just added a Tech
Musings tutorial and book
access.
January 26, 1999
Latest Tech Musings
#135 is on impulse radio,
a "new" bookbinding
method, Richard Feynman, MEMS nanotechnolgy, and brain
pairty.
January 23, 1999
Added some Nutritional
Supplement links to Bee's
web page. Started adding
photos to the surplus items, beginning with the Mystery
Beer Coolers and some
great Alarm Annunciator Panels.
Watch for lots more "PIX" orange boxes.
January 21, 1999
Just picked up some super rugged motors, still in their original
factory poly wraps.
Reliance 1 HP 3 phase 440 volts 182T frame. Fully enclosed. The feds paid
$1390
each for these gems. Have eighteen in stock at $89 each. FOB Thatcher.
Email me
for details. More motors are found on our bargain
pages.
January 19, 1999
Expanded and improved the Acrobat Library shelf.
January 18, 1999
Expanded and improved the Webmaster Library shelf.
January 16, 1999
February Resource Bin #85 is another look at Favorite Web Sites.
January 14, 1999
Latest Tech Musings #134
column is on PIC video
overlays, new aerial
photo sources, SETI books, and underwater arc absurdities. Added some
SETI titles to our Book
Access page.
January 12, 1999
Latest Tech Musings #133 column is on lamp dimmers and much more.
January 9, 1999
Added some Medical Electronics titles to our Book Access page.
January 8, 1999
The feds are experimenting with privatizing mil surplus sales and
a great
new free aerial & satellite photo site is up. You can find them both
on the
Non-technical Links library
page.
January 7, 1999
Improved and expanded the Book
Access page. Please wait till after this
page completely loads before using the power nav buttons.
January 6, 1999
Split out the 1998 What's New Archive as a separate file.
January 3, 1999
Added some weaving and crafts links to Bee's page.
December 27, 1998
Please note that some of our internal navigation hot buttons will
not
work properly until your page completly downloads. Because of our
"banners load last"
policy, full nav activation may take a while.
December 22, 1998
No, I don't have the foggiest idea what is wrong with the Guru's
Lair Forum.
Repeated requests to Deja News to fix the problem have gone ignored.
December 11, 1998
I'm doing a major revamping of our Bargain
Sale Pages, since I've gotten
way behind on posting all the incredible new goodies. So, expect some
temporary glitches here in the next few days. For openers, check out
the HP Sweep/Frequency
Synthesizers and the Super
Shipping Cases.
December 10, 1998
Improved and updated the Synergetics Consultant's Newtwork page.
December 9, 1998
The owner of ITU Technologies is believed to have recently deceased.
The status of the company is unknown. Until formally advised, we will
continue running the ITU banner till the end of their payment month.
December 8, 1998
Updated and improved classic Hardware
Hacker #68 on Thermoelectric
Modules and Pulse Monitors.
December 7, 1998
One of the quirks of the Deja View forum machinery is that it erases
traffic several weeks old. Making low Guru's
Lair Forum traffic a self-fulfilling
prophesy. I do check the forum more or less daily and try for fast answers.
December 6, 1998
Just acquired an "adequate" supply of classic Navy quality
selector
switches. 12 pole, 20 position plus off, prewired in groups of one to ten.
Please email me if you want to get
in ahead of the hoarders on this one.
December 5, 1998
Expanded and improved Bee's
Web Links. Added a new Hot
Springs
Directory book list.
December 1, 1998
Latest Resource Bin
#84 is on some Medical
Electronics topics.
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