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Amano PIX 3000x Timeclock

Posted on February 16, 2013 The Engineer

This is a late 90’s business timeclock, used for maintaining records of staff working times, by printing the time when used on a sheet of card. Here is the top cover removed, which is normally locked in place to stop tampering. The unit is programmed with the 3 buttons &

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Garmin eTrex

Posted on February 20, 2011February 10, 2011 The Engineer

Pocket sized GPS navigator. Here is shown the greyscale dot matrix LCD. Serial interface on the back of the unit. Pinout from left is +3v, Rx, Tx, GND. PCB Removed from the casing. RTC backup battery in the centre of board, CPU & flash ROM on the left. GPS chipset

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Ericsson GA628

Posted on August 25, 2010 The Engineer

Here is a phone from the mid 90s, the Ericsson GA628. Here visible is the front of the unit with keypad, & single line monochrome LCD for number display. Here the battery is removed from the phone, showing the SIM card socket. At the top under the antenna stub is

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