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  1. Master Tasuke

    Digital cameras, need input...

    great news, Craig!! i am cerain you will be as pleased with your D5000 as i am with my own! it hasn't let me down yet. something i strongly reccomend is getting yourself at least one spare EN-EL9a battery pack. i always immediately recharge keep my spare charged, so i always have a fresh pack...
  2. Master Tasuke

    Some Pioneer kit for the truck

    i've a fair little collection of the same magazines as advertised there, -including a JD-M300TP 3-pack- all accoutrements for my 1987 TOTL ELITE PD-M90X magazine changer CDP. ((i have since added a 1986 PD-M6 and 1988 PD-M700, rounding out a TOTL triumvirate of PIONEER's earliest, best made...
  3. Master Tasuke

    Digital cameras, need input...

    my NIKON D5000 DSLR setup was a package deal from COSTCO for just over a grand, with protection plans and whatnot, tripod and accessories $200/300 more. i got it all at once in 2009, used the daylights out of it and it hasn't let me down yet. it is, exclusively, what i have taken all my photos...
  4. Master Tasuke

    KYOCERA DA-310CX (1986/1987)

    nothing electrical. what you see there is what you get, actually; several packages worth of self-adhesive"SUPER SLIDERS" thick felt pads from WALLY-WORLD, some liberal application of cable ties, to clean up internal appearances, (HAUTE COUTURE HI-FI) and a set of large rubber isolator feet...
  5. Master Tasuke

    KYOCERA DA-310CX (1986/1987)

    so, here's photos of my actual copy finally, a series of minor mods made, and the side panels freshly oiled up;
  6. Master Tasuke

    TEXAS INSTRUMENTS TI-59 VINTAGE PROGAMMABLE CALCULATOR (1977)

    simply pried/peeled it away. in any case, it certainly came off easily enough. i guess modern 9v don't have the metal shell glued on in any way? at least the DURACELL PRO CELLs that i have do not seem to...
  7. Master Tasuke

    TEXAS INSTRUMENTS TI-59 VINTAGE PROGAMMABLE CALCULATOR (1977)

    **** http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI-59_/_TI-58 **** hi all. i happened across this old beauty about 6 years ago or so at a thrift for like, $3.00? something close to that, anyway. this 1970's model was supposedly the most advanced of it's day, or, at least, among the most advanced...
  8. Master Tasuke

    Leonard Nimoy is gone.

    Rest in Peace, Nimoy, and thank you eternally for the efforts you made towards making the world a better place. i've been a Trekkie since childhood, and am to this day a firm believer that STAR TREK as a whole always has been quite religious in it's overall optimistic vision of the future, and...
  9. Master Tasuke

    "Vintage" CD players

    my latest find, a 1987 KYOCERA DA-310CX, just shy of a 10-spot at my local GW;
  10. Master Tasuke

    KYOCERA DA-310CX (1986/1987)

    yeah, they sure didn't seem to have ever enjoyed much U.S. market share, but it evidently wasn't for any want of effort in their products...
  11. Master Tasuke

    KYOCERA DA-310CX (1986/1987)

    we were hauling some stuff from the house to GOODWILL about a week-odd back, downsizing for our move and all, and i get this nagging feeling to go on in and have a quick look around. usually, my local GW only ever puts nothing but pure crap on the floor in their electronics section, but...
  12. Master Tasuke

    National NV-850-A Hi-Fi Stereo VCR (1984 Model)

    i'm heartened to see that you got hold of, and so successfully restored, such an utterly well preserved example of a treasure of your youth. myself, i grew up around a pair of decidedly so-so (IMHO) no-frills VHS VCRs, a Linear Stereo HITACHI from like 1986 and an entry level S-VHS RCA from...
  13. Master Tasuke

    Lets talk Pre-amps

    if i was ever to go Separates on Stereo Amplification, this is how i'd do it;
  14. Master Tasuke

    National NV-850-A Hi-Fi Stereo VCR (1984 Model)

    that sucker is in gorgeous condition, Congrats. too bad you were forced to mod it with that externally-mounted cooling fan, but better safe than sorry. my own JVC HR-S8000U and MITSUBISHI HS-U80 S-VHS decks run quite hot indeed, but they do enjoy ample ventilation space, so i haven't been too...
  15. Master Tasuke

    what are you listening to?

    BOBBY BROWN; DON'T BE CRUEL (1988) just found an original issue of the album on CD at the thrift, used to have only the cassette edition. sounds sweeter than ever through my Pio ELITE PD-91 CDP. my favorite track from the album; http://youtu.be/eI0-n3bkRno
  16. Master Tasuke

    what are you listening to?

    i've loved this song since i first ran across it on one of my father's early-80's AIR-CHECKed mixtapes back in the late-1990's. since he was SO on-again-off-again about making his J-card notations, and the cassette this song was found on was obviously made during one of his F%$K-it-all moments...
  17. Master Tasuke

    JVC HR-S8000U (1988) vs MITSUBISHI HS-U80 (1988)

    well no, the HR-S10000U is not a typical industrial model, but a consumer one, seemingly built to industrial standards. it is, of course, an exceptional exception...
  18. Master Tasuke

    JVC HR-S8000U (1988) vs MITSUBISHI HS-U80 (1988)

    if anything, the 8000U trumps the U80 in pretty much every way, operationally. the 8000U's loading mechanism is very heavy galvanized sheet steel, the assembly has a pair of large, DD pancake motors for main functions, and cassettes LOAD/UNLOAD incredibly smoothly and rapidly. i cannot fathom...
  19. Master Tasuke

    JVC HR-S8000U (1988) vs MITSUBISHI HS-U80 (1988)

    JVC HR-S8000U MITSUBISHI HS-U80 JVC HR-S8000U MITSUBISHI HS-U80 JVC HR-S8000U MITSUBISHI HS-U80
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