During Christmas 1998 I bought a copy of Page Mill 3 from PC World. I was stuck at home doing duty engineer and thought I would do something new to pass the time. It turned out a bit more than I expected so it was some time before I embarked on this web site's construction.
First site constructed over a weekend in May 1999.
Changed first page and added a further page 21-2-2000.
Added Peugeot Photographs 06/06/2001
Removed Sat Data and Peugeot shots 27/12/02
Added Other Stuff pages 27/12/02
Added Heater page 29/12/02
Added Telex covers 29/12/02
Added bottle screws 31/12/02
Removed Club Site 25/12/2006
Removed other stuff, Mystery radio,Telex covers and bottle screws 29/4/2009
Cleaned up index, re linked Tom to jpg. Made it 5th attempt. Added Mk IX material. 29/4/2009
Added electrical diagrams, other sextants 30/04/2009
Expanded information on sextants. 1/05/09
Complete new index page, reports of "dodgy" site with unrecognised type set. 3/05/09
Added lamp polarities expanded text.9/5/09
Added Stiff bearing article 10/5/09
Added IX, A and BM 13/5/09
Added case contents 18/05/09
Started Post Office site 29/4/2013 Added info on IX AM and modified some of the text to bring it up to date with latest knowledge. added Why Bubble, Repairs and Calibrate, What I get up to sections.
1/5/2013 Added Historical and tidied up some of the text. Removed some Word files from Text folder.
2/5/2013 Added Astro Compass pages and inserted email link.
9/5/2013 Added calibration pages.
20/5/2013 Expanded Astro compass section and started to use Dreamweaver.
23/5/2013 Altered Types to reflect latest knowledge.
9/6/2013 Tidied up some text.
16/6/2013 Added sight sketches
17/6/2013 Added Ring remover
26/8/2013 Opened the Hostpapa location for the site, Post Office Hosting ceased.
10/9/2013 Finally got the ftp working. Now to do some updating.
14/9/2013 Added the eBay items page.
26/9/2013 Got the site working again added to eBay items.
27/9/2013 Added Kollsman information. Started to re organise site layout. Check links!!
29/9/2013 Cleaned off sold items from ebay page. Tidied up some of the links.
2/10/2013 Started to re organise Other Sextants.
5/10/2013 Added Merganthaler and several others.
7/11/2020 New site hosting Hostinger.
Achieved some editing of the Catalogue page without an html editor! Hard work.
10/11/2020 Got my old Page Mill 3 working again thanks to Dave Brad so started to tidy up and perhaps organise the site a bit better.
11/11/2020 Astro Mk II Altered (DEP) added photos. Made list of problems.
12/11/2020 Uploaded a semi complete site.
13/11/2020 Made a note of non working links.
13/11/2020 After a chat with an ex IBM engineer, he pointed out that in the old days spaces were not allowed, neither were multiple words as Folder names. I edited the site and it has started to work.
14/11/2020 Added Bubble making translations.
30/12/2020 Removed some line spaces from Index page.
6/1/2021 Replaced extractor with extractor lubricator tool.
7/1/2021 updated catalogue.
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