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It's a Sencore...somethingorother. About half the tubes are OEM branded. Of interest is the DuMont Laboratories CRT. It's rusty, inside and out.

Someone has been here before me trying to keep it running, those orange drops aren't OEM. I rawdogged it when I got it, but the power input is a mess and it didn't do anything.

It's a Sencore...somethingorother. About half the tubes are OEM branded. Of interest is the DuMont Laboratories CRT. It's rusty, inside and out. Someone has been here before me trying to keep it running, those orange drops aren't OEM. I rawdogged it when I got it, but the power input is a mess and it didn't do anything.

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Cannot unsee. These old CRTs always remind me of SpaceX Falcon 9 engines.

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Shapes appear over and over in nature.

Allen Dumont is the reason we had color picture tubes and magic eyes.

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Color tubes were too expensive.

The Vectrex and its color plastic overlays was the hype.

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Also

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I still need to ask someone a retarded physics question I can't properly articulate

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Try. You never know.

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Ok, so hear me out, cuz this is gonna sound pretty retarded.

Physicists tell me there can be such a thing as a vacuum, where nearly no matter exists.

And I understand that their are certain underlying 'fields' (unseen forces, akin to witchcraft) which also permeate space.

But I have played around with magnets enough to suspect that field can cancel each other out, if put close enough together.

Could there be a point in space that is devoid of all matter and fields?

If so, how would matter and fields know how to interact in a point of empty space?

Like, matter certainly has properties, and fields have properties, but wouldn't truly empty space have no properties?

But somehow any empty space knows exactly to tell matter/fields exactly how to behave when inside it?

Shouldn't that mean that empty space is somehow filled with information?

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In your example, you still have both of those magnetic fields, they simply cancel one another leaving 0. They're still there, they just don't affect anything because they're equal and opposite.

I don't know that the rules of our reality would allow something where there is nothing - in order to exist here it has to be something.

You're delving more into philosophical theory at this point than physical theory.

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Thank you my fine avian friend. I've been looking forward to seeing this.

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I'm planning on "eventually" trying to make it work. I don't really anticipate using it, but I would like to see a trace on the screen.

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I kind of figured that was part of why you collect such items. I've never done any refurbishing. I lean more into lift and carry with a dash of software development, but I do enjoy watching the process and have a genuine appreciation for a good result.

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That, and there's just something about a box of glowing fire bottles that you can see working. The fact that a lot of this old equipment can take some abuse that would make a modern device cry is a bonus.

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Armageddon tier.

Apocalyptic gold.

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It's beautiful! Made in South Dakota?

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My mistake, wrong Sencore. It may have been made here.

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Cool, you can store a sammich in that little compartment on the bottom left. (Sammich is code for condom)

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Well, it was supposed to be for probes, but yes...you could store your rubbers there.

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"Probes"

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Keep your probes safe and your tip will never go dull.