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I think they were kinda rare so I was fortunate to grow up in a city with a retail Heathkit store? Was too young to really appreciate it or take advantage of t
by ck2 5y ago
I think they were kinda rare so I was fortunate to grow up in a city with a retail Heathkit store?
Was too young to really appreciate it or take advantage of the kits, I would ride my bicycle there and look at everything though and get the latest catalog. All I was able to afford/build was an AM radio.
Watching the Heathkit computers come out in the TRS-80 days was amazing.
- WalterBright 5y agoI'm very sorry I gave away my H11. (sob)
- ck2 5y agoDid you solder it yourself? That must have taken many weeks!?
- cronix 5y agoMy dad built a heathkit dot matrix printer for his TRS-80. I fondly remember waking up at 2am numerous times to that loud thing. It was the loudest printer I think I'd ever heard.
- ck2 5y agoHa dot matrix was fun. Then the evolution of multi-pass and very dense pinheads. Then color before we moved on to other tech. Remember how big the parallel port and how thick the cable? All those pins. And they eventually found a way to transfer data at a whopping 500kbps over parallel vs 128kbps for rs-232. How far we've come. Seriously!