31 Mar
2002
31 Mar
'02
7:36 a.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
The horrible modern ones with the PCB that you fixed
little component
headers to with 6BA nuts? Or the older ones with loose components and
spring terminals that you pushed into a piece of pegboard?
The older, spring-terminal kind. There were transistors on little
square PCB mounts, a front panel with controls and lots of
ordinary components and wire. The most complex circuit was a
simple AM radio -- on which I listened to Radio Caroline, the
well-known pirate station of the time.
I grew up with the latter. I still have most of them,
and I found the
manuals the other day. I have/had
...
Unfortunately, I no longer have my Philips kits.
--
John Honniball
coredump(a)gifford.co.uk