6 Oct
2005
6 Oct
'05
8:59 p.m.
It's just more fun to build stuff yourself although not often cheaper... B)
Anybody remember Heathkit? They used to sell well-documented kits for all sorts of electronics. You could often save a bundle on various types of gear by spending a few nights with a kit. Back around 1980 or so, I built a VT-52 compatible computer monitor and the kit cost me ONLY $900. Heath even had a kit to build a PDP-11/01 computer. Pretty serious hardware. Boy did I drool over that one. Most of their stuff was radios, audio gear and such. But when the Japanese perfected high-quality mass production, the finished goods cost substantially less than the kits. Bye bye Heathkit. Pity.