Akihabara, Tokyo has transformed over the years. In its present type Akihabara emerged from the ruins of a devastated Tokyo after world war 2 when the entire district was burnt to the ground. The area was rebuilt in the shadow of the Akiba Jinja (dedicated to the god of terminate prevention), as well as a new breed of street vendors began to appear. Huddling under the security of railway bridges, as well as dealing mainly in Black market radio parts, these vendors set a new tone to what would ended up being Japan’s “Electric Town”. as well as as Japanese producing prowess grew so as well did Akihabara.
Maids touting for business
Now of program Akihabara is likewise house to Otaku culture, as well as is maybe finest understood in this regard for its housemaid cafes. streets are littered with maids touting their cafes, somewhat incongruously among computer outlets as well as precision tooling stores.
My interests nevertheless lie squarely in Akihabara’s wonderful junk bins. Of all locations I believe I’m happiest digging with this mass of discarded innovation from Japan’s producing past.
A excursion with the junks bins is like an archaeological dig. as well as in this post I will present some recent finds, as well as ponder on their relevance to Japanese manufacturing.
A 1960s age Japanese phone
The posterboy of early Japanese consumer electronics is the transistor radio. Unfortunately, these are progressively difficult to discover in Akihabara as well as never in the junk bins. The oldest piece of consumer electronics I’ve found discarded, as well as mainly unloved is this 1960s telephone.
The phone expense a rather extortionate 1980 Yen (16USD). There are some fantastic sites by Japanese collectors documenting the different colors as well as configurations of these handsets.
By the 1960s Japanese economic climate had well as well as genuinely boomed, having grown to the second largest in the world. Japan was pumping out transistorized consumer electronics. business having obtained licenses from AT&T for their production.
The phones interior layout
This telephone of program utilizes purely passive components, however still bears a few of the marks of miniaturization that came with this age of electronic development. The picture to the ideal shows the phone’s interior layout. especially in contrast with a British style of the exact same era. Amazingly, as well as a testament to worldwide standardization, I was still able to make a phone call with this phone. 6000 miles away from its meant point of use, as well as 55 years later the pulse dialing system still works on British Telecom’s network.
SuperJunk
Our next product I discovered in the aptly named “SuperJunk“. one of my preferred junk shops. Superjunk brings an assortment of passive as well as active elements including discarded SMD reels. together with this, a lot more traditional, surplus Superjunk likewise holds a little stack of curios. as well as this is were I discovered the Vidicon cam shown below.
A “National” (now Panasonic) Vidicon camera
With the extensive adoption of CCD as well as CMOS imaging ICs Vidicons have long been forgotten. however for lots of years Vidicon tubes were the only method of electrically obtain images. A vacuum tube has a flat photoconductive surface. as well as electron beam is scanned across this surface, much like a CRT TV in buy to determine the conductivity across the surface as well as obtain an image.
This tube bares the Matsushita electric industrial Co. brand. A business now much better understood as Panasonic.
Boxes upon boxes of Laserdiscs
The Vidicon cam represents a relic from the full analogue world of 70s as well as early 80s electronics. Akihabara is littered as well with abandoned digital cameras (like this Ixy 60). however they add bit to our producing story. a lot more fascinating maybe are those products created ideal at the cusp of the analogue to digital transition.
Forgotten Digital-ish Formats
Junk shops like Hardoff are full of discard Laserdiscs. While you may believe of Laserdiscs as purely “big CDs” they are really a extremely different technology. like CDs, the info was encoded utilizing pits checked out by a laser head. However, the video encoding system utilized a type of pulse width modulation, encoding as well as replicating a purely analogue signal.
“The Repeater” a curious artifact of 90s technology
Hardoff was likewise house to our next item. one more hybrid analogue storage/digital playback gadget called “The Repeater“.
When I very first gotten The Repeater I had no concept what it was. A curious slot appeared to accept a magswipe card, however I had nothing much else to go on. After some headscratching I deduced that the gadget plays back analogue audio encoded on a magswipe card. It appears that special flashcards were offered as a discovering aid. Swipe a card on which a concern is printed as well as the gadget will playback an audउत्तर उल्लिखित। रिभर्टर मेरो लागि आकर्षक छ किनकि अडियो एनाओगा रेकर्डिंगको रूपमा राखिएको छ, जुन प्लेब्याकका लागि ग्याजेट द्वारा आवश्यक छ (ताकि यसलाई दोहोर्याउन सकिन्छ)। यो प्रबादी समयमा मात्र एक मात्र बिन्दु हो जब यो प्राविधिक लिइएको थियो। डिजिटल प्रणालीहरूको सट्टा भण्डारण पर्याप्त छैन, यद्यपि सहज रूपमा प्लेब्याक पिताट्स पनि सहज रूपमा हेरफेर गर्न सक्षम। तलको भिडियोमा, तपाईं यस टेक्नोलोजिकल कर्रोलाई कार्यमा अवलोकन गर्न सक्नुहुनेछ:
रिप्लेटर पनि त्यस्तै हो जापानमा उत्पादन गरिएको हाम्रो जंक बिन ट्राँकको आँगन इलेक्ट्रोनिकहरूको अन्तिम अंशको रूपमा पनि महत्त्वपूर्ण छ। यी दिनहरू अकविवरामा उपलब्ध उपभोक्ता इलेक्ट्रोनिक्सहरूको विशाल बहुमत उत्पादन गरिन्छ (बारम्बार डिजाइन गरिएको)। जबकि ट्रान्जिस्टोर रेडियो जापानी उपभोक्ता निर्माणको बृद्धिको बृद्धिको प्रतीक हो, मैले जापानमा एक नयाँ उपभोक्ता रेडियो पत्ता लगाउँदछु।
अन्च्छूले केहि सय डलरको लागि प्राप्त गरे
परिक्षण उपकरण
उपभोक्ता इलेक्ट्रोनिक्स बाहिर kkiabaua kkiubau परीक्षण गर्न उपकरणहरू परीक्षण गर्न घर हो। यहाँ तपाई दुबै घरेलु साथ साथै विदेशी बचत परीक्षण परीक्षणहरू प्राय: अत्यधिक कम मूल्यमा अक्सर विदेशी बचत परीक्षणहरू पत्ता लगाउन सक्नुहुन्छ। डीउनको लागि मैले माथिको रूपमा छनौट गरेको छु र 300mhz + 5gs / s को ओएससीसिलोस्कोपहरू सामान्य 200 मा 2 वास्सीलोस्कोपहरू। केहि पनि गलत तरीकाले, यद्यपि सरल मर्मत।
कहिलेकाँही धेरै धेरै उत्कृष्ट उपकरणहरू धेरै उत्सुक हुन्छन्। सही रूपमा देखाईएको एन्टर्टजी संचार सञ्चार संक्रामक जस्तै। यो जापानी उत्पादन गर्न को लागी एक गरीब संदिग्ध छ कि यी उच्च प्रदर्शन उत्पादनहरु धेरै सस्तोमा चढाएको देखिन्छ, बिट क्षेत्रीय माग संग।
अकविरारारीले वर्षौंको अवधिमा ध्यान परिवर्तन गरेको छ, साथै जापानी उत्पादनमा हाल गिरावटमा कुनै प्रश्न छैन। यद्यपि अकिबारा अझै पनि कडा महसुस गर्छन्। त्यहाँ टेक्नोलोजीको जस्तो देखिन्छ, प्रविधिको लागि यहाँ फाइदा हुन्छ जुन मैले अहिलेसम्म कहिँ पनि देखेको छु। जबकि Shanzhen को बजारहरु अब dwarf Akiabara एक हजार फेब, शेन्जहेन सबै व्यवसाय हो। Akibabauar ओटोकूले भरिएको छ ह्याक गर्न चाहान्छ। भविष्यले मात्र प्रश्न गर्न सक्दछ भविष्यमा ल्याउँछ।