From: "A. Christoff Baumann"
If you figure out a solution, there's an entire hobby (amateur radio)
that is dying that would love to hear your solutions.
The solution is oriented towards hands on training, doing, and actual
elmering (mentoring) as opposed to just telling someone how to do
something, i.e. get involved with helping/teaching instead of just telling!
I am constantly amazed that for the most part, the only people buying
the older Heathkit/Eico/etc. electronics are "old" people who are buying
more for nostagia as opposed to learning.
And this also applies to classic computers. At the last swapmeet, I had
an HP85A for sale with not one person showing any interest.
Most of us here have a lot on our plates, and that makes it easy to
rationalize we don't have time. BS. We find time to do what we want.
A bigger problem IMNSHO is not having any idea of where this training we
could offer leads. I'm not sure any of us are into wasting time per se.
And doing something without a clue where it will lead (especially with a
full plate of stuff to do) makes it easy to not spend the effort to
teach or get involved with others.
BTW, someone told me that Heathkit has started selling kits again; has
anyone heard this?
Marvin