On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 3:07 PM, Guy Sotomayor <g...@shiresoft.com> wrote:
> > > On Jan 13, 2016, at 3:01 PM, William Donzelli <wdonze...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > Errrrr...Heathkit is long gone. > > > > However, there are at least a few car guys that might have a thing or > > two to say about the original post. > > > > I agree. Kit cars are still around. ;-) > > I don’t know about how easy it would be to build a TV (from > scratch…something > Heathkit didn’t do BTW…tuner was pre-assembled and “tuned”) given that the > over-the-air signal is now a digital signal vs analog (ie I can’t recall > if there’s any > encryption involved that would require decryption keys). > > TTFN - Guy > > > Certainly, but the OP seemed to be referring to the historical context of the construction of so-called "personal computers", especially 8-bit machines. And just to stretch the point a bit, amateur radio operators were building and using slow-scan TV systems in the 1970s. -- Ian S. King, MSIS, MSCS, Ph.D. Candidate The Information School <http://ischool.uw.edu> Dissertation: "Why the Conversation Mattered: Constructing a Sociotechnical Narrative Through a Design Lens Archivist, Voices From the Rwanda Tribunal <http://tribunalvoices.org> Value Sensitive Design Research Lab <http://vsdesign.org> University of Washington There is an old Vulcan saying: "Only Nixon could go to China."
