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Originally Posted by Lady Fitzgerald
Talking about kits, my 8th grade graudation present was a Heathkit shortwave radio. It was a case, a pcb, some wire, and a pile of components that had to be soldered to the pcb. My parents though putting it together would keep me busy all summer. I had it working in less than a week, including crawling up on the roof and stringing a folded dipole.
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Heathkit, now there is a name that is hardly hear.
My first was a V7a VTVM (with a tube in the AC probe,
An early Transistor Integrated Amp (AA21) And a Tube-type, Stereo Tuner (AJ??)
The I built the Weather Station and kept it running for over 20 years.
My firs OWNED computer was a TI 99-4
(We had DEC-PDP-8's, PDP-16's at work. Paper tape input)