Harpenden 6th March

[ppppenguin]

Looking forward to seeing lots of you at Harpenden next Sunday.

I've got loads of stuff for the Bring and Buy stall at Harpenden next week. From CMOS chips to vintage loudspeakers. All to raise funds for the Vintage Wireless Museum.

As always you can bring stuff for the B&B. Either as donations with 100% going to the Museum or as sales with 10% commission to the Museum. If you're bringing more than a couple of items to sell on commission it would be very useful if you could make a numbered list of your items along with prices. Plus correspondingly numbered price lables on each item. We will then add a serial letter to distinguish your number x from other people's number x.

B&B opens for entries as soon as stallholders are admitted. Please bring your entries as early as possible. We close the B&B and cash up at 1pm though you are welcome to collect  proceeds of your sales at any time. before then.

[pamphonica]

If anyone needs a pro-forma for listing multiple items, here is the one we use. Please leave the "Sold" and "Paid Out" columns blank, for use on the day.
If you are prepared to accept offers put a reduced figure in the appropriate space.  We will do our best to get the top price we can!

See you all on Sunday
Jeremy

[ppppenguin]

Jeremy, the newer DOCX format isn't quite universal for some of us. Could you please post it as the older DOC. PDF isn't the best answer as some might wish to fill it in with a word processor.

[pamphonica]

Good point.  Here are an older-format .doc version and a pdf.

[ppppenguin]

Thanks. Makes life easier for me as I still use Office 2000 as my main WP and spreadsheet package. i have the extensions that can read DOCX but they're not ideal. I also use Libreoffice if I have to do something with modern file formats. But I'm used to Word 2000 and Excel 2000, they work more than well enough for me and they're very fast on a modern PC, far faster to open than Libreoffice.

[Terry]

It is worthwhile installing the free Libre Office for situations like this.

It will happily open xlsx and docx files. They can then be saved as xls or doc files and used with the older Microsoft Suites in the usual way.

It is worthwhile installing it because not every source of these modern format files are as helpful as the folk on here. Even if you only use it to convert one file, it will be worth the disk space it occupies.

[Refugee]

The pointless file format I have come across in the past was winmail.dat.
I had to use an on line converter in order to get it open. I have absolutely no idea what software is supposed to read or create this file format.
That format did not last very long because few soles bothered searching the web for a solution.

[ppppenguin]

The pile. Not nuclear. Not steaming.

This lot will be loaded in my car on Saturday night ready to go to Harpenden on Sunday. I think it will alll fit. The vast majority of it is being sold for the benefit of the Museum.

A lot of it is NOS modern components including quantities of CMOS and TTL. I will have a rough list of the DIL chips which is now almost complete and attached here. Printed copies on the day. Because I'm nice I'll bring along my own CMOS etc data books so you can look up many of them. If those books disappear the perpetrator will be hung, drawn and quartered, not necessarily in that order.

There are a couple of energised speakers, a re-entrant horn thingy by Amplion with no driver, a few odd radios, some bits of testgear, odd 19" rackmount units, an unusual portable TV, toroidal transformers as advertised here a few months ago, a small amount of BBC white front units, a 50V 2A bench PSU, a metal bench lamp, a schmitt optical unit, a 25kV projection EHT unit, a JVC audio/video switcher BNIB.

The plastic crates are already spoken for provided we can sell enough of the stuff.

All I want is lots of lovely money for the Museum. I want to go home with an empty car except that Brian Cuff is bringing me a box of 78s.

[Mark Hennessy]

Excellent Of course, anything left over could come to Virginia Water in a couple of weeks time

[pamphonica]

Ah yes - I see I had better keep a LOT of room in my car to take stuff back to Virginia Water!