[AT] OT: Flashback - Early Farmers Building County Roads

[George Willer]

Mike,

I'm not sure whether I still have the Heathkit VTVM or not.  I'll never use
it in any case.  Now, with all this newfangled transistor stuff, there's
probably something better for 10 bucks or so!

We never had a TV when I lived at home.  After I left home and married we
got a little B&W TV for my parents to watch the one available channel.  My
mother became a fan of professional wrestling.  :-(

Color came along much later.  I don't know if she ever saw it.

George Willer

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> Subject: Re: [AT] OT: Flashback - Early Farmers Building County Roads
> 
> I built one of those GR2500(?) Heathkit color TVs. I don't know how long
> it took to build, but, even with hours talking with the tech reps, I
> could never get it right. And the remote control never worked right
> either. I finally gave it away to a young couple who had nothing (and
> the Heathkit was only slightly better than nothing). I have a feeling
> that was one of the things that helped bury the company. I still have a
> bunch of Heathkit test gear around (DMM, dual trace 'scope, resistor and
> capacitor decade boxes, etc.) and none of it works properly. I guess I
> will toss it all out someday - I can't find anyone locally who is even
> slightly interested in the old stuff. (and I have a LOT of old
> electronic stuff!)
> 
> Mike
> 
> H. L. Staples wrote:
> >
> >
> > Our first color set was a kit from Heath. Took about 25 hours to
> assemble
> > and by todays standard was a terrible set. When doing some of the
> alignment
> > with the oscilloscope connected to the vertical, horizontal and video my
> > kids got a kick out of watching Bonanza on the little green screen.
> >
> >
> >
> > No matter what I did there was always a buzzing sound when titles were
> > displayed on a dark background. This thing had a built in dot generator
> to
> > help in the set up.
> >
> >
> >
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> Mike Sloane
> Allamuchy NJ
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