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TGIMBOEJ – A Basement in Chicago

I’ve received another Great Internet Migratory Box of Electronic Junkthis one from Chicago.

It took me a little while to get this one out the door, but it has been passed on towards greener pastures.

This box contained a variety of toys, oddly enough ANOTHER US Robotics Data/Fax Modem, a huge amphenol connector (which meant I had to include a bigger one!), a hard drive, several coax in-line amplifiers, a whole box full of random IC’s.  A nice decade set of capacitors, a dead backup battery, some adjustable capacitors and much more electronic “stuff”

A Basement in Chicago TGIMBOEJ

A Basement in Chicago TGIMBOEJ

Quite a Bit Fits in Such a Small Box

Quite a Bit Fits in Such a Small Box

I ended up pulling out the decade capacitor set, a set of pressure sensitive resistors, a CF card, a random 6 pin connector I run into a lot on old equipment, and last but not least an ancient PCMCIA flash card:

Parts Removed

Parts Removed

I ended up adding a development kit from Freescale Semiconductor, a huge capacitor, a giant amphenol connector and an old police radio that doesn’t seem to work??

Parts Added

Parts Added

Additionally, I realized today this box of decade capacitors has random smilie faces drawn on them:

Happy Capacitors

Happy Capacitors

At any rate, the box has been passed on to Tim and will hopefully be on it’s way to another lucky recipient shortly!