Re: [PCWorks] old TVs

  • From: "Clint Hamilton-PCWorks Admin" <PCWorks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "PCWorks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <pcworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 01:08:17 -0600

Yeah I used to build Heathkit products!  I built one of their
pre-amps once around '75 or '76.  I started my company around
1976 and used/sold a lot of their products.  Good company.
They're still around but no longer offer any electronic kits,
just educational courses  They have some on PC's.
http://www.heathkit.com/pctech.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heathkit
-Clint

Happy New Year to all and God Bless
Clint Hamilton, Owner
www.OrpheusComputing.com
www.ComputersCustomBuilt.com


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Vern"

Clint,

You may not be old enough to remember but there once was a
company called
Heathkit in Michigan. I assembled one of their color TVs back
in the late
1960s. It was the first color TV I owned. I still have it out
in the garage.
I think it is mostly tube type except for the tuner.

I received in the mail a bag with resistors, a bag with
capacitors, ect. And
a manual about 2 inches thick. <G>

Vern




>I like that "I'm retired and don't have time to watch tv."
>
> The TV I'm using now is over 15 years old.  I planned on
> continuing to use it because it's "the only TV ever made"
> with
> a commercial skip timer, which I use constantly (my cable
> company will be broadcasting in analog along with digital
> after
> Feb. 17th).  But a couple of months ago it blew something
> when
> I accidentally shut it off then immediately back on again
> (sat
> on the remote), and looks quite odd now......not the remote
> but
> the TV.  (Hee hee).  So I've been spending all this time
> trying
> to find something and a way to get back this commercial skip
> timer with a new HDTV.  I dread having to fix the old TV due
> to
> the massive conglomeration of dust, which is toxic to me.
> -Clint
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Vern"
>
>
> You guys are funny. My tv in the living room didn't even have
> a
> remote until
> I put the digital converter box on it. This tv is a floor
> console I
> purchased in 1983. <G> No I don't have cable. I'm retired and
> don't have
> time to watch tv.


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