[GreenKeys] ST6 questions

[Bill Henry]

Don and all --

Thanks for the comments.

Not so much a "do good doer" - but that I am old enough to remember and 
want to write it down before I forget.

Toroids were a fun thing and the absolute best bargain in electronics at 
the time.  Those are very high quality coils.  At the peak of the ST-6 
work, we paid between $0.05 and $.25 each, depending on the source.  And 
then we'd have to strip them out of the casings, separate the coils, and 
strip and tin the leads.  We easily put another two or three bucks into 
every one.  When the surplus market started to dry up, I tried to have some 
new ones made.  Automatic Electric in Chicago wanted a minimum  order of 
10,000 and the price was $7.50 - EACH - and that was in 1972 dollars!  For 
a little bitty garage company, it might as well been a million 
bucks.  Plus, each ST-6 plus AK-1 had 10 toroids and the parts kit sold for 
$100 or so.  This would have just about doubled the price!  As they say, 
the rest is history - ST-6000 and then ST-5000.

Bill