My name is David Speck, and I found this forum by a link from the Fusor.net forum. I have been a long time follower of the Tesla mailing list as well.
I've had a life long interest in things electronic, especially if they glow nicely. I do eye surgery for a living, but electronics for fun. (If you try to do medicine for fun, they put you in jail!)
I have the parts for a fusor, but no space or time to assemble one. Another dream is to recreate "The World's Largest Cosmic Ray Spark Chamber" that I saw at the 1964-65 NY World's Fair. See:
http://www.worldsfaircommunity.org/index.php?showtopic=3353&hl=%20spark%20%20chamber&st=0
Right now, the joys of solo practice make it easier for me to accumulate components than to put things together, but I can still dream. I have a large collection of NIM and CAMAC equipment, some of which actually works.
Right now, one pursuit I am chasing is to find documentation for a LeCroy "Magic" CAMAC controller. I'd love to discuss CAMAC implementations with someone who's had experience with them. I have a great number of CAMAC modules (an entire car full, to be precise) that were given to me, but no documentation on any of them, and all the manufacturers and the requisite documentation seems to have disappeared. I wonder if anyone has had any luck deducing their command sequences without an operator's manual.
I'll look forward to following the exploits of the list.
Dave Speck