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My interest started with a Tasco 60mm refractor for a Christmas present from my parents in 1983. I had a passing interest in science, space and spacecraft but the scope really knocked it up a notch. It was purchased from Astro Optical Supplies in Melbourne when they were in the Mid-City Arcade near the Hoyts Cinema. A guy by the name of Keith Bambury managed the store during the 1980's.
I still recall it was all white with black trims, and a table tripod. The 'finder' consisted of two brackets with holes in them, one at each end of the tube, but somehow it worked!
To this day I still cannot find a picture of it anywhere on the web. It ended up as a finder scope on my home made 6" Newtonian, then eventually was lost somewhere in one of my many house moves.
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