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1. @mcscx@quitter.se (mcscx@quitter.se)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jan-2018 22:56:33 UTC @mcscx@quitter.se

   • r҉ustic cy͠be̸rpu̵nk🤠🤖
   @cypnk  looking at the photo I can almost "smell the smell"… The brown circuit board material of that age (often) had a specific smell
   • @mcscx@quitter.se (mcscx@quitter.se)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jan-2018 23:10:25 UTC @mcscx@quitter.se

     • Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK
     • r҉ustic cy͠be̸rpu̵nk🤠🤖
     @vfrmedia not tubes and heat… I'm imagining the smell of the Siemens W48 http://qttr.at/21b9 telephone, inside. I loved it as a boy. @cypnk
   • @mcscx@quitter.se (mcscx@quitter.se)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jan-2018 23:24:51 UTC @mcscx@quitter.se

     • Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK
     @vfrmedia you may be right although the bakelite case doesnt have a specific smell to me but the interior.Either circuit board or insulation
   • Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK (vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jan-2018 23:32:49 UTC Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK

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     @mcscx Unfortunately my chemistry isn't very good (I'm slightly better at electronics) so I am also probably getting the names of the plastics mixed up.

     There was also some stuff called Paxolin (possibly known as Pertinax in other North European countries) which was paper bulked up with similar phenol formaldehyde resin used for a lot of ciircuit boards Its use was discouraged at some point in 1970s(?) and now EU banned/restricted as the dust from that stuff is suspected to give you cancer!

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   • @mcscx@quitter.se (mcscx@quitter.se)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jan-2018 23:37:50 UTC @mcscx@quitter.se

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     • Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK
     • r҉ustic cy͠be̸rpu̵nk🤠🤖
     @vfrmedia I got the W48 phone from my grandfather as a play-thing in ~1978 when it was 15-30 yrs old… not really old actually @cypnk
   • @mcscx@quitter.se (mcscx@quitter.se)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jan-2018 23:40:35 UTC @mcscx@quitter.se

     • Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK
     @vfrmedia ha! I looked up exactly the word #Pertinax some minutes ago but only found Roman things… so yes, that may be the thing. 
   • Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK (vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jan-2018 23:45:40 UTC Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK

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     • r҉ustic cy͠be̸rpu̵nk🤠🤖

     @mcscx @cypnk I also remember the smell from working on electronics in high school, we often reused a lot of 1970s era surplus components and circuit boards, I think British Telecom donated a lot of them as where I lived we had an unusually advanced (for UK) electronic telephone exchange which was upgraded several times, as a lot of audio from #ColdWar #radiomonitoring and #surveillance went through the region due to the #BBC #Caversham Monitoring service being down the road!

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   • @mcscx@quitter.se (mcscx@quitter.se)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jan-2018 23:50:12 UTC @mcscx@quitter.se

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     • Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK
     • r҉ustic cy͠be̸rpu̵nk🤠🤖
     @vfrmedia interesting:in 1978 a 20 yr old phone or tube radio was antique! Now my 1982 Sinclair Spectrum is 36 yrs old! unbelievable… @cypnk
   • @mcscx@quitter.se (mcscx@quitter.se)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jan-2018 00:04:50 UTC @mcscx@quitter.se

     • Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK
     • r҉ustic cy͠be̸rpu̵nk🤠🤖
     @vfrmedia interesting – in Germany tube radios had long disappeared & were concidered prehistoric at least in 1975.  @cypnk
   • @mcscx@quitter.se (mcscx@quitter.se)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jan-2018 00:08:08 UTC @mcscx@quitter.se

     • Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK
     • r҉ustic cy͠be̸rpu̵nk🤠🤖
     @vfrmedia I have some reel-to-reel tape recorders sitting somewhere… tube & transistor. Too bad the rubber belts always go bad @cypnk