19 Feb 2013, 18:29
I have dozens of module photos taken for posterity, but none as cleanly taken as yours ! [ edit .. see thread on Module Database from where this post came ] But the idea of a database is an excellent one, and will help preserve the knowledge going forward 
Meanwhile, I think we could have a thread devoted to close up photos of dead modules, with bad acid damage, strange holes in carriers, Frankenstein modules found in Pulsars and so on.
Here's a close up of a module I took out of a really nasty 1973 Chronex LED.
A battery had blown its brains out all over the back of the module.
But what amazed me was just how badly made this particular module was. Admittedly each digit was made of hand assembled segments, but the result is possibly why Chronex vanished almost as soon as they started up !
Meanwhile, I think we could have a thread devoted to close up photos of dead modules, with bad acid damage, strange holes in carriers, Frankenstein modules found in Pulsars and so on.
Here's a close up of a module I took out of a really nasty 1973 Chronex LED.
A battery had blown its brains out all over the back of the module.
But what amazed me was just how badly made this particular module was. Admittedly each digit was made of hand assembled segments, but the result is possibly why Chronex vanished almost as soon as they started up !
