On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 4:54 PM, Chuck Guzis <ccl...@sydex.com> wrote:
> On 01/13/2016 03:27 PM, William Donzelli wrote: > > In the old days, the shitty kit TVs would have continuous tuners. >> > > In prewar days, it seems that there more than a couple of offerings. > Didn't Meissner(they of the "Signal Shifter" VFO) offer a kit TV in the > 30s/early 40s? I do remember the continuous tuners, though--two bands--and > one could even tune Channel 1. > > A large number of Heathkit color TVs were built by vets using funding from > the GI bill. Those were Heath's good days... > > --Chuck > > ISTR ads in magazines like Popular Electronics offering courses on TV repair that employed the Heathkit as the learning platform. -- 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."
