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Showing posts with label reverse-engineering. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reverse-engineering. Show all posts

Repairing a vintage 40-kilovolt xenon lamp igniter

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What do xenon lamps and the invention of radio have in common? The box below is a 1960s German high voltage unit that CuriousMarc obtain...
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Inside a Titan missile guidance computer

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I've been studying the guidance computer from a Titan II nuclear missile. This compact computer was used in the 1970s to guide a Titan...
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Looking inside a vintage Soviet TTL logic integrated circuit

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This blog post examines a 1980s chip used in a Soyuz space clock. The microscope photo below shows the tiny silicon die inside the package, ...
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Inside the digital clock from a Soyuz spacecraft

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We recently obtained a clock that flew on a Soyuz space mission. 1 The clock, manufactured in 1984, is much more complex inside than you...
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