Bruce -

I'd heard of Heath kits in high school, but didn't see one until 1980 when
one of my comp sci class mates was building a computer with her da.  It was
pretty cool, and that was in the days when there wasn't much to teach about
computers so you got more hands on architecture of circuit boards and the
like.  Now, they just teach about programming and leave the design stuff to
the engineers.

- Pam
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Marcham" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 10:11
Subject: Re: [BP] BULLAMANKA-PINHEADS Digest - 22 May 2005 to 23 May 2005
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> And I'm impressed, Pam, that you know about Heath kits.
>
> I made a multi-band receiver from one of their kits in junior high back in
about 1968 (as I recall it was not a great success) and about ten years ago
got a bunch of Heath stuff from the estate of someone who built one of the
first color TV kits they sold back when color TVs were a novelty (he had to
build an oscilloscope and a bunch of otehr test equipment to make the TV).
I also got one of the early Heath computers in the package.  I was supposed
to go back (to Macungie PA outside of Bethlehem) to get the color TV but
didn't--probably gone by now as it was sitting in the garage of the widow.
She was going to put the whole lot out to the curb but her daughter (who
worked in our office) suggested it might be something I would want.  I think
she actually told me about her dad's collection of model airplanes first but
those ended up going to a model airplane museum.  Her dad was on the cutting
edge of the polymer film, rubber band powered, endurance flight airplanes
and also did planes that used an clock mechanism somehow to free fly in one
pattern until the clock timed out and then flew another pattern (I'm
guessing the planes would fly in a corkscrew to gain altitude and then maybe
go for distance in a straight line).
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Pamela S.
> Follett
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> 2005 (#2005-103)
>
>
> Deb -
>
> I'm impressed you've automated your digestive process.  Was it a Heath
kit?
>
> - Pam
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> From: "Deb Bledsoe" <[log in to unmask]>
>
> > Automatic digest processor wrote:
> > >
>
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