🚀 go-pugleaf

   My little gadget stopped working after a thunderstorm.
For those who do not know what it looks like, it is about 
2inches square, and is essentially a DB25 splicer, with
male on one end, female on the other, and a shielded cable
terminated in a miniature phone plug coming out the side.
   If you put in in series with anything connected to an
"IBM-Compatible" serial port, and run the accompanying
software, you can get pictures from radio facsimile signals.
It gives gray scale, 16 steps, and can provide pretty nice
looking pictures from NAM, Norfolk Va, relaying weather
satellite images and maps.  A similar gadget for about the
same price is sold by Software Systems Consulting of
San Clemente, CA.
   Since it seemed busted anyway, I just now pried it open.
I have not finished tracing the schematic diagram of it,
but believe it or not, it containes the following parts,
and no more:  1 Dual Op-Amp  5 resistors  4 diodes 4
capacitors! (Sorry for the spelling of "contains" up
there).  There's magic in electronics!

 This is from
     gerry@bluemoon.rn.com
who doesn't have his (or her) own obnoxious signature yet