[GreenKeys] HEATHKIT back in business - QST Dec 2015

[Bob Camp]

Hi

One of the many things that kept Heathkit in business was the Chicago based consumer 
electronics industry. The Benton Harbor location was close enough that they could run
their own trucks over to pick up “excess lots” of parts from any of a large number of 
companies. They were regular customers for “end of the run” picture tubes at several 
Chicago factories. They also grabbed up a lot of end of run components. 

How did they make that all work? The kit you got for your TV might not be quite the 
same as the kit I got. Lots of paper flying all over the place to make that happen.

Unless the “new guys” can tap into a similar stream of 10 cent on the dollar parts,
they will have a tough time doing the kits at the prices we all remember so fondly.

Bob


> On Nov 22, 2015, at 8:54 PM, epvgk at limpoc.com wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 07:10:06AM +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
>> On Sun, 22 Nov 2015, Ed Sharpe Archivist for SMECC via GreenKeys wrote:
>> 
>>> I would like to have one? like that at the museum set up. kind of 
>>> holding off on any? thing? until I see what wonders our list leader? Gil 
>>> is? designing into the box? he has been working on.? This texting? is 
>>> one feature that is neat but?he had? from other included? features 
>>> that?? seemed to make it a 'one box solution' for?the museum project.?? 
>>> Ed#? www.smecc.org
>> 
>> OK, here's a wild idea: connect a GSM modem to a TU, with a suitable 
>> application in the middle, and do texting between the RTTY and the 
>> phone...
>> 
>> -- 
>> Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU)  "Those who don't understand security will suffer."
> 
> I've done that. Implemented on an ARM microcontroller dev board with GSM
> modem. It wasn't very interesting because it couldn't do much else but if
> anyone wants my ugly C code you're welcome to it. 
> 
> I found it much more useful to connect the loop to a small computer running
> HeavyMetal and then writing apps that talk to it via tcp/ip connections, 
> letting heavymetal deal with the loop, echo suppression, character set
> translation, etc. 
> 
> eric
> 
> 
> eric
> 
> 
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