Jim Audiomisc
pfm Member
Look in the addresses (URLs) of the UKHHSoc webpages.
Richard provides the space and some services for the UKHHSoc. I do the fun job of collecting and putting up thousands of files. 8-]
Sinclair Hifi? I'd never heard of it.
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Look in the addresses (URLs) of the UKHHSoc webpages.
Richard provides the space and some services for the UKHHSoc. I do the fun job of collecting and putting up thousands of files. 8-]
Jim Audiomisc
pfm Member
I also loved the *appearance* of the Neoteric 60. But when I saw it at an audio show I was instantly struck by two thoughts.
1) Bej* ! It has even less in the way of heatsinks than the Armstrong 600 range. How on earth will it survive mere customers using it! 8-]
2) The 'matchstick' controls looked lovely when all aligned vertically. But in use might be all over the shop and look a mess.
Tony L
Administrator
Yes, it was a beautiful bit of design, almost Lescon in its ‘70s clean lines, but being a Sinclair I assume it was made appallingly badly! I’ve never seen one in the flesh so don’t quite understand how the switching works, are they ‘rocker’ switches, i.e. pivoted in the middle?
Jim Audiomisc
pfm Member
The switches on the left are depression on/off ones IIRC. The controls on the right (volume, etc) are rotary. So the visible 'sticks' end up at all angles when you alter the volume/balance/treble/bass. All from distant memory.
Mike Reed
pfm Member
Look in the addresses (URLs) of the UKHHSoc webpages.
Richard provides the space and some services for the UKHHSoc. I do the fun job of collecting and putting up thousands of files. 8-]
I did; I then Googled R.T., and read quite a lot of his CV. If you see him/correspond with him, mention me. I wonder if he remembers those days when I lived in Downside Crescent and he moved into a flat in Herbert St (?). Think this must have been in late '63 or '64. He had a Morris Minor van. Guess our interests then (as now ) were in hifi and somewhere, I've still got one of his letter-heads with which we used to access wholesalers.
jtrade
pfm Member
Correct... except I kept them all vertical - apart from the volume control- precisely for that reason !
I called the amp the Sinclair Neurotic after my experiences... whatever did I do with my 2000 .... I think Laskys took it back after repairing it and gave a credit note... in all conscience i couldnt have sold it except to a geek ... who all had The sleek Cambridge amps ... P50's I think, which the 2000 range emulated in looks
russel
./_dazed_and_confused
Interesting, I didn’t know that TI calculators were RPN. I went down the HP-41 route, which definately were RPN!
The HP died years ago, and these days I use my iPhone Excess..........
https://www.swissmicros.com
Expensive but tempting....
JensenHealey
pfm Member
I thought that was not a bad price at all for an incredibly powerful machine.
On the subject of TI, I never saw a RPN TI calculator, so I am curious about that. A quick scan round the net did not turn up anything concrete as an actual model that was sold.
On the subject of TI, I never saw a RPN TI calculator, so I am curious about that. A quick scan round the net did not turn up anything concrete as an actual model that was sold.
Currently have a System 4000 amp and tuner in my office system -- listening to Radio Paradise via it as I type -- bought in 1971 from Comet I think and used in my student days right though to the 80s when replaced by a NAD 3020 -- dragged out of the loft couple of years ago and amazingly it (touch wood) still works -- would post a picture if I knew how to -- last one in captivity?
Steve
Steve