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

[charlie hill]

The very day after you throw it out it will become a collectors item and 
folks will be selling them on Ebay for hundreds of dollars.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Sloane" <mikesloane at verizon.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 4:58 PM
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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> Allamuchy NJ
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