TESLA Merkur 4160AB B&W TV
Description: A portable black and white TV.
Manufacturer: TESLA Orava, k.p. Nižná
Made in year(s): 1982-1989
Country of origin: Czechoslovakia
Status: Replaced it with a Merkur II… [more]
Description: A portable black and white TV.
Manufacturer: TESLA Orava, k.p. Nižná
Made in year(s): 1982-1989
Country of origin: Czechoslovakia
Status: Replaced it with a Merkur II… [more]
Tried searching the keyword “geiger counter” on Google, or even better, on YouTube? Now, how many of them contained a multitude of transistors, analog microchips or even digital microprocessors, and no shielding at all? Well, whatever the count is, a majority of them – if not all – are going to fail miserably, due to a huge electromagnetic pulse, when the… [more]
Description: Two speed, 4-track mono tape recorder.
Manufacturer: TESLA Pardubice
Made in year(s): 1973-1976
Country of origin: Czechoslovakia
Status: Got rid of it… [more]
Description: Two speed, 4-track “Hi-Fi” tape recorder.
Manufacturer: TESLA Přelouč
Made in year(s): 1982-1986
Country of origin: Czechoslovakia
Status: Working, in good condition… [more]
If you have a sweet spot in vacuum tubes, used in vintage electronics, you might have seen a special kind of a tube that was used in many pre-war AM radios as an indicator of signal strength, thus, proper tuning. And with a simple circuit like this one, you can make it bounce to the rhythm of your music!… [more]
With a predictable demise of CRT screens that’ve been phased out of production since the late 2000s, the owners of vintage TVs, monitors or other displaying equipment, kept in a condition that’s just too good to be thrown out, will eventually bump into a problem concerning each and every CRT – or any vacuum tube in general – of decreased cathode emission, … [more]
Description: Composite monochrome monitor.
Manufacturer: TESLA Orava, k.p. Nižná
Made in year(s): mid- to late 80s
Country of origin: Czechoslovakia
Status: Working… [more]
Description: An 8080-based 8-bit computer.
Manufacturer: TESLA Piešťany (later TESLA Bratislava)
Made in year(s): 1983-1989
Country of origin: Czechoslovakia
Status: Working… [more]
Description: A portable full-track tape recorder.
Manufacturer: Kudelski SA
Made in year(s): 1958-1968
Country of origin: Switzerland
Status: Working… [more]